Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Hughes Outfitters
Builth, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 16 September 1991
- Town
- Builth Wells
- Community
- Builth
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.14896, -3.40222
- Cadw reference
- 7435
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 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
On line of street. On prominent corner site.
History
Earlier C19, with late C19 shopfront. Formerly known as 'Crystal House'.
Exterior
Slate roof with overhanging eaves at front, red brick chimney to left. Smooth rendered front, with end pilaster strips and band between 1st and 2nd floors. Exposed gable end to E in rubble masonry, with squared hammer dressed quoins.
Three storey, three window front. Second floor windows 12 pane hornless sashes, 4 panes over 8. First floor windows 16 pane hornless sashes. Windows have painted wooden surrounds and are set very shallow. On ground floor, projecting shopfront, full width of building. Shopfront follows line of, and retains details of late C19 front known from old photographs despite being obscured by unsympathetic fascia board.
Nearby in the register
- Drovers Tea Rooms & RestaurantCommercialunder 1 mi
- Roy Brown's CoachesCommercialunder 1 mi
- The White Horse PHCommercialunder 1 mi
- Former Confectioner's ShopCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.