Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Corn Exchange PH
Crickhowell, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 25 September 1986
- Community
- Crickhowell
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.85874, -3.13721
- Cadw reference
- 7224
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
On the corner with Beaufort Street and set back from the main part of the Corn Exchange Inn to the right.
History
Late C18/early C19 2-storey roughcast front with end pilaster strip to structure of C17 origins.
Exterior
Steep slate roof, boxed eaves and roughcast chimney stack to left (probably originally with another to right, now roofed over). Two 16-pane sash windows to 1st floor with thick glazing bars and flush frames, modern window in Corn Exchange part to right. Later corrugated lean-to cross-windowed shop front with PH entrance to right and splayed shop entrance to left.
Roughcast gable end wall to Beaufort Street formerly with 'Round House' extension as shown in view of 1750, now with exposed chimney breast corbelled at top of ground floor. Two small-pane sash windows with broad architraves, one to attic.
Floriana adjoins to left and occupies the 1st floor and attic of the property over the shop. Interior retains chamfered beams to main room and tenoned purlins to roof structure.
The major part of the Corn Exchange Inn is no longer of special interest.
Reason for designation
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- Jubliee House (M.T.Cashell,Family Butcher)Commercialunder 1 mi
- F.E.Richards, Butcher & Floriana (above)Commercialunder 1 mi
- 1 Beaufort StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- FlorianaCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.