Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
9 Church Street
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
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 29 February 1996
- Locality
- Welshpool
- Community
- Welshpool
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.66017, -3.14704
- Cadw reference
- 16655
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
Immediately left of the passage leading to Puzzle Square.
Exterior
History: Built on the site of a malt-house as the depot for the Welshpool foundry of J.M.Morris, to designs by Mr Hurst, the Borough Surveyor, c1890.
Exterior: Brick with stone dressings and slate roof. 3 storeys, 5-bay range, articulated by a strong cornice band over the second storey, and by pilasters between the bays. Pedimented central bay houses entrance: paired doors in round-headed archway with terracotta keyblock. Similarly detailed openings to floor-length windows in right-hand bays - the left hand bays altered by the insertion of a shop front. Paired windows in each bay to first floor are 2-pane sashes with stone sills, lintels and frieze band. Segmentally arched heads with stone springers and keystones to 2-pane sashes paired in each bay above the principle cornice band. Lettered frieze below the eaves records 'J & M Morris Agricultural Implement Depot'. Similar detail in 3-bay return elevation, with central doorway.
Warehousing was an important component in the commercial significance of Welshpool during the C19 - this building represents an excellent example of the type, given a clear architectural expression of its character and status.
Reference: Ion Trant, The Changing Face of Welshpool, 1986, p.117.
Nearby in the register
- 8 Church StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- 7 Church StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- 6 Church StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- 5 Church StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.