Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Talbot House
Crickhowell, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 25 September 1986
- Community
- Crickhowell
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.85715, -3.14042
- Cadw reference
- 7183
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 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Set into a continuous row of frontages stepped in the slope.
History
Part of a group of buildings incorporating Talbot Place.
Exterior
Tall early C19 simple classical 2-storey and basement roughcast front with plinth; slate roof and brick chimney stack. Recesssed 9-pane sash window with fluted keystone to 2nd floor; pair of 8-pane sash windows to ground floor, 6-panel door with fanlight to right.
Attic window to roughcast left end wall. Roughcast rear with 2-storey and attic cross gable; sash windows and roughcast stack.
Reason for designation
The other part of Talbot House (No 1) is no longer of special interest.
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- 28 Bridge StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- Talbot PlaceDomesticunder 1 mi
- 10 Bridge StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 11 Bridge StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.