Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
F.P.Harris
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
- 51.85891, -3.13674
- Cadw reference
- 7245
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
Situated at the bottom of the street at the junction with Beaufort Street and High Street; the end of a continuous row of frontages.
Exterior
Early to mid C19 group of 3-storey, 2-window scribed stucco frontages, Nos 1 and 2 forming a uniform front with wide centre; No 3 with cill band. Slate roofs, bracket and panelled eaves to Nos 1 and 2, boarded eaves to No 3; eaves band to Nos 1 and 2.
Recessed sash windows, 9-pane to 2nd floor, 12-pane to 1st floor with architraves to No 3. Decorative ironwork window box-holders to No 3 with barley twist cross bars. Overall shop fronts to Nos 1 and 2 with projecting cornice, later splayed bay window to No 1 flanked by plain pilasters, flush shop window to No 2 but formerly bowed (as fascia) also with plain pilasters. Half-glazed doors with 3-pane fanlights to centre flanking central cross passage entered through iron gates. Similar shop front to No 3 with splayed bay to right, plain pilasters, half-glazed door with 4-pane fanlight; further passage door to left.
Roughcast gable end to Beaufort Street with chimney breast and modern shop front; formerly extended further into the street.
Reason for designation
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- Jehu'sCommercialunder 1 mi
- Including William Evans & CoCommercialunder 1 mi
- Queens Coffee Tavern (Percy Davies Institution)Commercialunder 1 mi
- Crickhowell AdventureCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.