Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Drovers Tea Rooms & Restaurant
Builth, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Builth, Powys, designated on 16 September 1991.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 16 September 1991
- Community
- Builth
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.14879, -3.40244
- Cadw reference
- 7436
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1637 · Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 196 Builth (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
On line of street. Eighteenth century, formerly public house.
Exterior
Slate roof, rubble masonry chimney extended in red brick.
Front and back walls timber framed behind render. Some applied light timber framing. Wall at west end (with chimney) rubble masonry.
Two storey front, asymmetrical with central gable with blocked small square window. Four windows on first floor (12 pane sashes, horned) set very shallow. Victorian public house front with bracketed cornice above and stepped plinth. Three large small-pane windows, tripartite sashes to right and left of entrance door, and fixed beside passage entrance. Glazed double entrance doors, with fanlight over. At right gable end, very large projecting chimney. On ground floor, to left, wide passage (through to lane) with exposed beams over and to right, narrow entrance door. At rear,
some modern slatehanging on first floor over passage, with modern window frame. Long range in brick and rubble stone at right angles to road, on line of lane, formerly contained brewery for public house.
Interior
Interior has exposed timber framing on front wall and timber-framed partition walls.
Nearby in the register
- Hughes OutfittersCommercialunder 1 mi
- Bristol House occupied by Davies Bros. GrocersCommercialunder 1 mi
- Post OfficeCommunicationsunder 1 mi
- Roy Brown's CoachesCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.