Local people subscribed to the building project of the new Union, which was to be the principal hotel in the town, built with the fashionable five bays and two and a half storeys surmounted by a very shallow pediment of the period.

A second entrance from Water Lane was created for the use of people coming from the canal area, with Newport being on the main route to North Wales and Ireland.

In 2017 permission was sought to redevelop the building as flats, retaining the facade while demolishing the rear extension.

It was still undeveloped, shorn up by scaffolding and complained of as an "eyesore" in February 2023 when a director of the property firm told BBC Radio Shropshire the building needed to be demolished, a route not allowed by the local authority Telford and Wrekin District Council, who reportedly did not want the building de-listed and demolished.

[3] The hotel is in stuccoed stone with a rusticated ground floor and quoins, above which is a frieze and a cornice.