Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
The Plough Inn P.H.
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
- 52.14807, -3.40224
- Cadw reference
- 7440
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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 corner of Market Street and Brecon Road.
History
In appearance, essentially a late C18 building with earlier nineteenth century alterations and additions, but probably has earlier origins.
Exterior
L-shaped plan, with longer range facing Market Street, shorter range facing Brecon Road.
Partly timber-framed (generally rendered over but some nineteenth century framing visible to rear of Brecon Road wing); partly local rubble stone. Some dressings in brown-yellow brick.
Shallow-pitched slate roof hipped to right and with overhang at left gable end. Rendered chimneystacks, that to left of Market Street front has two diagonally set square extensions. Pilaster strips at ends of Market Street front. Three storeys. Market Street front is four windows wide but not symmetrical, with windows grouped symmetrically around the right door then a wider space to left before windows resume, grouping with door to private entrance. Small pane hornless sash windows, 9 pane on second floor, 12 pane on first and ground floors (but window to left of public entrance has later three-light window lighting bar). Windows are set flush with the walls and have painted surrounds on first and second floors, set deeper without surrounds on ground floor, which has thick walls.
Brecon Road facade shows clear vertical joint in masonry indicating formerly two premises. At lower left, low delivery door to cellar (with painted brick dressings) and to its right cellar window (with rubble voussoirs) now blocked with red bricks. Three small-paned sash windows, on second floor 9 panes and hornless, on first and ground floors 12 paned and horned, all flush set with brick dressings. To Left of join in masonry, a door beneath cambered arch in stone, then 3 sash windows set deeper than those to left all with rubble voussoirs. At angle of building, recess said to have once held pier of former tollgate.
At rear of Market Street block, 1st and 2nd floor windows of same period as front. On ground floor, modern single-storey extensions. Rear of Brecon Road block incorporates thin C19 timber framing with brick infill.
Nearby in the register
- Bristol House occupied by Davies Bros. GrocersCommercialunder 1 mi
- Drovers Tea Rooms & RestaurantCommercialunder 1 mi
- Swan HotelCommercialunder 1 mi
- Bank HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.