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The Talbot, Wrexham - Wikipedia

Coordinates: 53°02′46″N 2°59′37″W / 53.045988°N 2.993738°W

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Talbot Inn
The polygonal corner of the building between Hope Street (left) and Queen Street (right)

Former names	Talbot Inn (–1900s) The Talbot Bar (2008)
Alternative names	Talbot Hotel The Talbot Talbot Pub Talbot Public House
General information
Type	Pub (–1966) Hotel (1905–1966) Retail space (1966–) Bar and music venue (2008)
Architectural style	Neo-Tudor
Location	Wrexham, Wales
Address	48–49 Hope Street and 1–3 Queen Street, Wrexham^[1]
Coordinates	53°02′46″N 2°59′37″W / 53.045988°N 2.993738°W / 53.045988; -2.993738
Renovated	1904–05
Height
Roof	Red plain tiled and finialed overhanging tiled
Technical details
Floor count	3
Renovating team
Architect(s)	John H. Davies and Son of Chester M. J. Gummow (also credited)


Listed Building – Grade II
Official name	The Talbot Public House
Designated	31 January 1994
Reference no.	1844^[2] and 16504^[3]

The Talbot is a former pub and hotel in Wrexham city centre, North Wales. It was built and opened by 1905 replacing an older inn also known as The Talbot or the Talbot Inn.

The current building consists of a polygonal Tudor Revival façade structure and is situated in between Wrexham's Hope Street and Queen Street, with the building also extending further across Queen Street. A hotel styled as the Talbot Hotel also operated on the first floor of the building.

It stopped operating as a pub and hotel in 1966, later being converted into retail space (now Boots Opticians), although part of the building briefly served as a bar known as The Talbot in 2008.

Description

It is a three-storeyed polygonal corner building with outer gables facing and situated between Hope Street and Queen Street, with it extending as a lower two-storeyed four-gabled range along Queen Street.^[4]^[5]^[6] It has half-timbered walling with a polygonal red plain tiled roof and has a Tudor Revival façade, and is one of the few built and later remaining Tudor-faced buildings in Wrexham with other similar-designed buildings later demolished.^[2]^[4]^[5]^[6]

It is a grade II listed building.^[6]^[7] The building was designed by John H. Davies and Son of Chester,^[4]^[2]^[3] although M. J. Gummow who designed the Poyser Street drill hall, is also accredited with designing plans for the building.^[5] The end wall stacks are made with enriched brickwork, using a standard type designed by Douglas and Fordham for production by Ruabon-based J. C. Edwards.^[2]

The building is said to be one of the most photographed buildings of Wrexham, and is used to promote Wrexham such as by local politicians,^[5] as a local landmark.^[6]

History

In March 1888, the older inn was acquired by F. W. Soames & Co for £4250 (equivalent to £597,991 in 2023) and the old pub was demolished.^[5] The older pub was also known as "The Talbot"^[8] or the "Talbot Inn" in older photographs.^[9]

By August 1904, an agreement was signed between Rev. John Ollerhead and J. W. Soames on a larger rebuilding of the hotel. The building was rebuilt in 1904–05, into a larger building than the original and became a hotel on the first and second floor with an extra shop on the ground floor.^[4]^[5]^[6]^[8] Mr Soames of Soames Brewery (later Border Breweries) held some yearly events for his employees in the building.^[5]

The Talbot Inn Hotel stayed open until 1966 and is now retail space,^[5]^[7] recently being occupied as of 2019^[update] by Boots Opticians.^[8] Although the name The Talbot was retained by a bar located in the building's basement,^[8] which briefly openly operated as a bar and music venue between 2008 and 2009.^[10]

References

^ "Wrexham Pubs, Clubs and Hotels – "Wrexham History"". Archived from the original on 9 February 2017. Retrieved 1 June 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Cadw (31 January 1994). "The Talbot Public House (Grade II) (1844)". National Historic Assets of Wales. Retrieved 2 June 2023.
^ ^a ^b Cadw (31 January 1994). "NOS 1-3 QUEEN STREET,,,,,CLWYD, (Grade II) (16504)". National Historic Assets of Wales. Retrieved 2 June 2023.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Talbot Hotel Public House;48 & 49 Hope Street, Wrexham (301218)". Coflein. RCAHMW. Retrieved 1 June 2023.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h "Soames Family and Brewery – "Wrexham History"". Archived from the original on 20 May 2020. Retrieved 1 June 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Wrexham Town Centre Conservation Area Character Assessment and Management Plan" (PDF). Wrexham County Borough Council: 14, 39.
^ ^a ^b "Historic Wrexham Inns | Clwyd Family History". www.clwydfhs.org.uk. Retrieved 1 June 2023.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Hope Street - Boot's Opticians". 2013. Archived from the original on 6 April 2019. Retrieved 2 June 2023.
^ "Wrexham, Hope Street and the Talbot Inn 1895". www.francisfrith.com. Retrieved 2 June 2023.
^ wrexhamusic.co.uk (2 March 2009). "The Talbot is dead. Again. | wrexhammusic.co.uk". Retrieved 1 June 2023.

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