Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Town Hall
Talgarth, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Civil
- Date of designation
- 24 September 1985
- Locality
- Talgarth
- Community
- Talgarth
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.99571, -3.23206
- Cadw reference
- 7480
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
Located on a prominent site in the centre of Talgarth.
History
Built 1877-8 as an Assembly Room with a produce market under, by T Lawrence Lewis, architect. Clock tower added 1887 for Queen Victoria's jubilee, and wing at right angles on the E side, modernised and altered 1994.
Exterior
Rubble stone with slate roof. Ground floor now has an opening to the square, functioning as a bus shelter, with public conveniences within. Two-storey rubble gable end has, above the shelter, three windows with fixed metal 20-pane glazing, the centre pivot hung, with dressed quoins, the window opening with alternating black and yellow brick voussoirs. Plain bargeboards. Roof quarter hipped. Set behind a quarter hipped roof, a square clock turret with an open stage and ogee lead-clad roof finishing with a finial. The side elevation is of 2 storeys, 5 window bays of similar windows. On the E side, an external stair from The Bank provides access to the 1994 upper floor wing, the C18 railings from Tregunter House now replaced. This wing has a glazed link to a C20 rendered rear service block, also with a slated roof.
Interior
Hall is of 5 bays, divided by hammer-beam trusses carried on stone corbels, with tension bars. Single tier of purlins. Stage in S end bay. Square opening in gable end blocked when belltower added.
Reason for designation
Listed as the most important visual element on The Square, and of group value with Tower House shop and Talgarth Bridge.
Nearby in the register
- Talgarth MillIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Telephone Call-box on The SquareCommunicationsunder 1 mi
- Tower House including attached shopDomesticunder 1 mi
- Talgarth BridgeTransportunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.