Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Former Cooper's shop adjoining
Welshpool, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Welshpool, Powys, designated on 29 February 1996.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 29 February 1996
- Locality
- Welshpool
- Community
- Welshpool
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.66099, -3.14588
- Cadw reference
- 16646
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1795 map "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1795 · To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most… (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 151 Welshpool (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1916 · Sheet 60. Shrewsbury. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Above the level of the road, opposite the Church of Saint Mary.
Exterior
History: Nos 1-2 appear to represent a single build, and the exposed timber framing in the rear of No 1 suggests a late C16 or early C17 building date, with a frontage which is probably late C18. The former cooper's shop is probably early C19 and the workshops are late C19.
Exterior: The houses are painted brick, slate roof with single gable end stack, and rear wall stack. 2 storeys, No 1 is a 2-unit plan, with doorway towards centre: a 6-panelled door with overlight and shallow canopy hood to architrave, flanked by canted bay windows of late C19 type, with 4-pane sash windows. Small 2-light casement windows immediately below the eaves. No 2 is single unit plan, with doorway to right, and camber-headed window alongside, with mullioned and transomed glazing. 3-light casement window below the eaves. Heavy square panelled box framing exposed in rear elevation. Former cooper's shop adjoins No 1 to the right, at a lower level. Rough local rubble, with brick dressings, all painted. Slate roof. Wide doorway to the left, and 3-light workshop window to its right, both with cambered heads. 2 small-paned iron casement windows immediately below the eaves. The coopers' workshops from a wing to the rear of the shop: single storeyed sheds of light timber framing with plank cladding.
The buildings form a group and are of special interest not only for the vernacular character and early origins of the houses, but also for the exceptional survival of the cooper's shop and associated workshops: these form a remarkably complete group of considerable historical interest.
Nearby in the register
- 1 Church Bank.Domesticunder 1 mi
- 2 Church Bank.Domesticunder 1 mi
- Walls, steps and gates to forecourt of Church HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Church HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.