Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
25 Broad Street
Welshpool, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Welshpool, Powys, designated on 11 March 1981.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 11 March 1981
- Locality
- Welshpool
- Community
- Welshpool
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.65956, -3.14754
- Cadw reference
- 7768
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1795 map "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1795 · To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most… (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 151 Welshpool (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1916 · Sheet 60. Shrewsbury. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
In the block between the corner with Berriew Street and New Street.
Exterior
History: Built c1820 as part of a larger development with No 24. Probably built as shop with accommodation over at the outset.
Exterior: Lined-out render over brick, slate roof with gable end stacks. 3 storeys, 2-window range. Mid C20 shop front to ground floor, with recessed doorway set to right of centre. Upper storeys articulated by outer and central pilasters, and plain frieze band below the moulded cornice. 12-pane sashes to first floor, 9-panes above.
A modest but well-detailed early C19 commercial building which forms part of a group at the centre of the town.
Reference: Ion Trant, The Changing Face of Welshpool, 1986, p.59.
Nearby in the register
- 24 Broad StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- 26 Broad StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- Midland BankCommercialunder 1 mi
- 27 Broad StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.