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Salmons House

Crickhowell, Powys, Wales

A Grade II listed building in Crickhowell, Powys, designated on 25 September 1986.

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1913) covering the location of Salmons House, Crickhowell, Powys, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1913), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Designation
Listed building, Grade II
Broad class
Domestic
Date of designation
25 September 1986
Community
Crickhowell
Unitary authority
Powys
Country
Wales
Coordinates
51.85713, -3.14066
Cadw reference
7238

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)

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Cadw's description

Location

Set back from the road and reached by short walled drive; backs onto Salmon Flat, Bridge Street.

Exterior

Part of the former Salmon Court, at one time a hotel. Probably mid C19 2-storey, 3-window roughcast front with end and middle pilaster strips to earlier structure (now divided up). Tall slate roof, wide boarded eaves, roughcast and brick chimney stacks. Central 12-pane sash window flanked by tripartite sashes with cambered heads; similar windows to ground floor, central modern door and porch. Sash windows to right gable end, entrance to left end.

Reason for designation

Group Value.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Designated Historic Asset GIS Data, The Welsh Historic Environment Service (Cadw), 2026-09-07, licensed under the Open Government Licence http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/ Cadw, the Welsh Historic Environment Service · Open Government Licence v3.0
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