Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Old Bank House (House to the North )
Llanfair Caereinion, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 1 April 1996
- Locality
- Lllanfair Caereinion
- Community
- Llanfair Caereinion
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.64867, -3.32451
- Cadw reference
- 17372
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1795 "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).
Cadw's description
Location
Located at the S end of Bridge Street on the E side in a prominent position close to the Market Hall.
Exterior
History: Built between 1830-1840 as a single house with an inserted shop front of c1900. Described as a hatter's shop on the Tithe Map apportionment. Visible in a photograph dated 1914 (Pryce, 1991, p78). Subsequently altered into shop with separate dwelling adjacent.
Exterior: Pair of houses of 3 storeys and cellars. Three window range. Yellow brickwork in Flemish bond with stone plinth and modillion eaves cornice. Slate roof with gable end yellow brick stacks. Dwelling to N has paired small-pane sash windows on upper floors (16-pane to first floor, 12-pane to second), with wedge lintels above first floor windows. Similar ground floor window to left of entrance, which has a 9 (though 3 are very small) panelled door with overlight in architrave with panelled reveals. The entablature continues across the shop front of Deri Dental Practice; this has paired windows, each divided into 6 panes, with panelled aprons and entrance to right (the door is a modern replacement). Small-paned tripartite sash window with wedge lintel above, and 12-pane sash in second storey, 2 x 12-pane sash windows with stressed quoins in rendered gable end.
Interior: Not accessible at time of inspection (September 1995).
Listed as a well preserved house with later shop front, in a prominent location with townscape and group value.
References: W.T.R. Pryce, The Photographer in Rural Wales, 1991, p78;
Tithe Map c1842.
Nearby in the register
- BrynllysDomesticunder 1 mi
- GlenfernDomesticunder 1 mi
- Old Bank House (Deri Dental Practice)Domesticunder 1 mi
- Victoria House (now N.F.U. Mutual Office)Commercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.