Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
20 High Street
Welshpool, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Welshpool, Powys, designated on 25 April 1950.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 25 April 1950
- Locality
- Welshpool
- Community
- Welshpool
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.66081, -3.15152
- Cadw reference
- 7801
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
Immediately E of Powell's Lane.
Exterior
History: The house forms part of a block of 3 houses, which represent a single development by the Powis estate, c1740, and previously known as Plas Goch.
Exterior: Brick, painted to front elevation, and rebuilt in upper gable end; slate roof with end wall stacks. 2 storeys with attic within the roof. 4-window range with entrance to left of centre: pedimented doorcase with foliate scrolled brackets to hood, and 6-panelled door. Windows throughout are flush-framed 12-pane sashes with cambered brick heads. 2x2-light dormer windows with shallow leaded roofs within the roof. Rear elevation has tall camber-headed windows (cast-iron casements with transoms), and a doorway (reduced in height).
A well-detailed early C18 town house which is of particular significance as part of a larger development.
Reference: Ion Trant, The Changing Face of Welshpool, 1986, p.32.
Nearby in the register
- 21 High StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 22 High StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 23 High StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 24 High StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.