:Cnapan Hotel
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| location = Newport, Pembrokeshire, Wales
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| owner = Michael & Judith Cooper
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Cnapan, also known variously as Cnapan Country House or Cnapan Restaurant and Bed & Breakfast, is a Grade II listed hotel and restaurant in Newport, Pembrokeshire.{{sfn|Andrews|Teller|2004|p=770}} It lies along the main road of the town, East Street, which is part of the A487 road, opposite The Golden Lion.{{cite map|title= Maps|publisher=Google Maps}}
Architecture
It is set in a Grade II listed pink painted Georgian townhouse named Ivy House,{{cite web|url=http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/wa-12486-ivy-house-the-cnapan-restaurant-east-stre|title=Ivy House (The Cnapan Restaurant), East Street (N Side), Newport|publisher=British Listed Buildings|access-date=16 October 2012}}{{sfn|Balmer|Raphael|Raphael|2005|p=444}} in a small seaside town,{{sfn|Balmer|Raphael|Raphael|2004|p=456}} and takes its name from the medieval Celtic sport of Cnapan, although there is little to connect the two today.{{sfn|Hornby|Inglis|2008|p=25}} Dated to the early 19th century, architecturally Ivy House, two-storeys with attic, is described as "painted roughcast, with panelled doorcase and fanlight, the porch with the etiolated, debased classical columns popular all over the region".{{sfn|Lloyd|Orbach|Scourfield|2004|p=322}} There are three bays on each floor at the front, with a French window on each floor on the western wing, where the restaurant is located. Next door is Sessions House, dated to 1900, but with a stucco front with windows in the late 18th-century style.{{sfn|Lloyd|Orbach| Scourfield|2004|p=322}} As of 2001 it had five double rooms, a bar, and a restaurant; it is the restaurant for which it has earned its reputation.{{sfn|Andrews|Teller|2004|p=770}}{{sfn|Balmer|Raphael|2001|p=425}} The interior consists of traditional Welsh oak furnishings.{{sfn|Leapman|2011|p=593}} In the hallway is a traditional heavy oak Welsh dresser which contains items belonging to the owners. In the sitting room is a wood-burning stove and books and magazines, and in the dining room is a large stone fireplace, with pictures and pieces of armour on the walls and lace-covered tables. The bedrooms are small, with pine furniture and bright hues, with a "tiny shower".{{sfn|Balmer|Raphael|2001|p=425}} The hotel has been run by the Coopers since 1984; Judith Cooper and her daughter are the chief cooks.{{sfn|Balmer|Raphael|2001|p=425}} It became a Grade II listed building on 14 April 1992.
Reception
It has featured in The Good Hotel Guide and The Good Food Guide.{{sfn|Balmer|Raphael|Raphael|2005|p=444}}{{sfn|Balmer|Raphael|2001|p=425}} The Western Mail said that it has a "restaurant that was 'large and well patronised', this hotel had an air of rural France, so generous and cheerful."{{cite web|url=https://www.questia.com/read/1G1-137082966|title=Where there was brass there's now fashionably chic hotels.|publisher=Western Mail |url-access=subscription|date=3 October 2005|access-date=}}{{dead link|date=July 2021}} The Christian Science Monitor similarly mentioned its "cozy atmosphere, delicious home cooking."{{cite web|url=https://www.questia.com/read/1P2-33409503/tips-for-travelers-who-plan-a-trip-to-pembrokeshire|author=Sloane, Wendy|title=Tips for Travelers Who Plan a Trip to Pembrokeshire|publisher=The Christian Science Monitor|date=8 February 1996|access-date=|archive-date=10 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160310002439/https://www.questia.com/read/1P2-33409503/tips-for-travelers-who-plan-a-trip-to-pembrokeshire|url-status=dead}} In 1997 The Independent noted that the owners "scour the hills, beaches and local markets for herbs and fresh ingredients for their stunning creations."{{cite web|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-4845045.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130126091858/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-4845045.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=26 January 2013|title=Travel: My Rough Guide: Beware the Hitchcockesque hotels|publisher=The Independent |via =HighBeam Research |date=23 March 1997|access-date=16 October 2012}} The restaurant serves Welsh cuisine and is noted mainly for its fish and meat dishes.{{sfn|Dragicevich|Atkinson|2011|p=158}}
References
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=Bibliography=
- {{cite book|last1=Andrews|first1=Robert|last2=Teller|first2=Matthew|title=The Rough Guide to Britain|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AOt1Hb8MOQUC&pg=PA770|year=2004|publisher=Rough Guides|isbn=978-1-84353-301-6|page=770}}
- {{cite book|last1=Balmer|first1=Desmond|last2=Raphael|first2=Caroline|title=The Good Hotel Guide 2002|publisher=Ebury Press London|year=2001|isbn=978-0091879679}}
- {{cite book|last1=Balmer|first1=Desmond|last2=Raphael|first2=Caroline|last3=Raphael|first3=Adam|title=Europe's Wonderful Little Hotels and Inns 2004: Great Britain and Ireland|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C6gTqkWKhkcC|year=2004|publisher=Steerforth Press|isbn=978-1-58642-073-4}}
- {{cite book|last1=Balmer|first1=Desmond|last2=Raphael|first2=Adam|last3=Raphael|first3=Caroline|title=The Good Hotel Guide 2006: Great Britain & Ireland|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9Oy9NSVu7TgC|year=2005|publisher=Steerforth Press|isbn=978-1-58642-097-0}}
- {{cite book|last1=Dragicevich|first1=Peter|last2=Atkinson|first2=David|title=Galles|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FaoF-07Fg3kC&pg=PA158|year=2011|publisher=EDT srl|language=Italian|isbn=978-88-6040-749-8}}
- {{cite book|last1=Hornby|first1=Hugh|last2=Inglis|first2=Simon|title=Uppies and Downies: The Extraordinary Football Games of Britain|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EZUTAQAAIAAJ|year=2008|publisher=English Heritage|isbn=978-1-905624-64-5}}
- {{cite book|last=Leapman|first=Michael|title=DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Great Britain: Great Britain|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Izrm0sjbWSAC&pg=PA593|year=2011|publisher=Dorling Kindersley Limited|isbn=978-1-4053-6751-6}}
- {{cite book|last1=Lloyd|first1=Thomas|last2=Orbach|first2=Julian|last3=Scourfield|first3=Richard|title=Pembrokeshire: The Buildings of Wales|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AyK4f2_8H78C&pg=PA322|year=2004|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=978-0-300-10178-2}}