Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Queens Coffee Tavern (Percy Davies Institution)
Crickhowell, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Crickhowell, Powys, designated on 25 September 1986.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 25 September 1986
- Community
- Crickhowell
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.85903, -3.13678
- Cadw reference
- 7196
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 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1856 · 42. Brecon. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 232 Abergavenny (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 232 Abergavenny (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
In "The Square" at the top of the street on the corner with Standard Street; adjoining No 1 to left.
History
Dated 1884. Built by Percy Davies of Porthmawr and bequeathed by his wife, Caroline Wilhelmine, as a Trust for the "Benefit of the Town" and the "General Welfare of the inhabitants of Crickhowell". The Trustees are required to ensure that it remains a coffee house; it formerly also housed the Public Library.
Exterior
Tall Victorian 3-storey, 1-window painted brick front with some Gothic details; open-pedimented gable end to the street flanked by advanced and panelled end pilaster strips; slate roof. Paired semicircular headed sash windows with keystones and bracketed cill to 2nd floor; splayed oriel to 1st floor with sash glazing and dated corbel above ground floor cornice with gablets to ends, recessed half-glazed door and memorial tablet below.
Roughcast 6-window Standard Street frontage with cross gable to central bay over 6-panel door; sash windows with glazing bars and cambered heads.
Interior
Interior retains Gothic furnishings to ground floor.
Reason for designation
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- Crickhowell AdventureCommercialunder 1 mi
- F.P.HarrisCommercialunder 1 mi
- Including William Evans & CoCommercialunder 1 mi
- McGrath, Pearce & Co., SolicitorsCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.