Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
26 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
- 52.65961, -3.14760
- Cadw reference
- 7769
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: Probably built c1830, and similar in design to Nos 24-25, though of less height. Probably in commercial use from the outset, the ground floor was reconstructed mid C20.
Exterior: Lined-out render over brick, slate roof with end wall stack. 3 storeys, 2-window range. Modern shop front to ground floor, the upper storeys articulated by outer and central pilasters. 12-pane sash windows with continuous sill band to first floor, 6-pane sashes below the eaves.
Included as part of a coherent group of early C19 commercial buildings at the centre of the town.
Reference: Ion Trant, The Changing Face of Welshpool, 1986, p.59.).
Nearby in the register
- 25 Broad StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- 27 Broad StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- 24 Broad StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- 28 Broad StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.