The Talbot, Wrexham

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]

The building's shop fronts are renewed throughout, although a terracotta panel is present over the Queen Street doorway to the building, and various terracotta brackets connecting to the original fascias have survived.[2][4] The building's wood is mullioned, with transomed oriel windows present to its first floor, with leading and stained glass their upper parts. For the three-storeyed polygonal building, there are three-light casement windows beneath three gables on its central range. There are heavy bargeboards with finials to these gables, while the top of the polygonal element has a steep roof with small dormer windows containing leaded hoods in each, and a terminating with a finial-leaded cap. Oriel windows are present beneath the four-gables in the extended range along Queen Street with finialed overhanging tiled roofs.[2][4] 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]

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 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]

In March 1888, the older inn was acquired by F. W. Soames & Co for £4250 (equivalent to £503,664 in 2021) 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 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]

Terracotta panel above the Queen Street entrance