Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Salmons 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
- 51.85713, -3.14066
- Cadw reference
- 7238
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 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
- Salmon FlatDomesticunder 1 mi
- 28 Bridge StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- Talbot HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Talbot PlaceDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.