Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
29 Broad Street
Welshpool, Powys, Wales
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
- 52.65974, -3.14787
- Cadw reference
- 7772
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 1795 "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).
Cadw's description
Location
In the block between the corner with Berriew Street and New Street.
Exterior
Exterior: Brick with slate roof and end wall stack set towards the rear. 3 storeys, 2-window range. Round-arched passage entry to the left, and early C20 shop front with recessed central door and windows divided by a central mullion. Plain fascia, with simply moulded pilasters to either side. 16-pane sash windows with flat-arched gauged brick heads to first floor, and wide 12-pane sashes below the moulded eaves band.
Retains its character as an early C19 building, with a C20 shop front of some character. Forms part of a group of commercial and domestic buildings at the centre of the town.
Reference: Ion Trant, The Changing Face of Welshpool, 1986, p.60.
Nearby in the register
- 28 Broad StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 27 Broad StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- 26 Broad StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- 32 Broad StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.