Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
3 High 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
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 11 March 1981
- Locality
- Welshpool
- Community
- Welshpool
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.66039, -3.14926
- Cadw reference
- 7790
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
Opposite the Town Hall.
Exterior
History: Probably C16 in origin: a timber-framed building which was refronted on a new alignment in the early C19. It may have once comprised a single house with No 4, and the present through passage may once have been internal. Extended to the rear in the C19 by a single-unit cottage, and a later warehouse and stable range which were used as club rooms for a time.
Exterior: Main range with short rear wing, possibly at one time forming a separate dwelling, which was subsequently extended with the addition of a further dwelling and the store-house range. Main elevation is lined-out render over brick, with slate roof. Timber framing exposed in side wall to passage. 3 storeys, 2-window range, with inserted shop front to ground floor, 4-pane sashes with steep cambered brick heads above, and 12-pane sashes below eaves. Timber framing exposed in side passage forms 3 panels with heavy chamfered studs below the mid rail, and an ogee arched doorhead towards the rear.
Interior: Staircase with turned balusters and moulded square-section newels in lower flights; splat balusters to attic. The roof shows the clear evidence for the re-construction of the house on a new alignment, and retains the earlier A-framed collar truss.
The building is of special interest primarily for the partial survival of its original high-quality timber framing. Its history of successive reconstruction (including alterations to the street alignment), and of extension infilling the burgage plot are also of considerable interest.
Nearby in the register
- 1A High StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 2 High StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- 1 High StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 5 & 6 High StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.