Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Post Office
Builth, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Communications
- Date of designation
- 16 September 1991
- Community
- Builth
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.14919, -3.40290
- Cadw reference
- 7445
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 prominent site, close to Groe.
History
Dated 1936. Neo-Georgian Style.
Exterior
Single storey. Hipped grey slate roof with graduated courses and coved eaves. Roughcast render above pale cream limestone, with dressings in same stone.
Seven bays to Strand Street, two doors plus five large sash windows with small panes, and stone sills with aprons linking to plinth. Public entrance doorway has limestone surround and pediment with date 1936 and monogram of Edward VIII. Panelled entrance doors in pale wood. Panelled door to private entrance, painted with fanlight above. To N, pair of large sash windows as front.
At rear, service blocks in same materials, partly in Neo-Georgian style, with glazed iron canopy over loading bay, and skylights in long hipped roof. Large yard behind rendered wall, entered through gateway with pillars with globe finials.
Interior
Interior retains original fittings including pale wood porch, panelling and
counters, desks, posting box, doors, and telephone booth. Doors have original brass fittings. Contemporary floor tiles. Simple Neo-Georgian ceilings, coved and moulded.
Nearby in the register
- War MemorialCommemorativeunder 1 mi
- Hughes OutfittersCommercialunder 1 mi
- Alpha Presbyterian ChurchReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Drovers Tea Rooms & RestaurantCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.