Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
31 High Street
Welshpool, Powys, Wales
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
- 52.66082, -3.15074
- Cadw reference
- 7806
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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
Close to the W corner with Jehu Road.
Exterior
History: A stone set into the front wall is inscribed with the letters Ll over W M (Walter and Magdalen Lloyd) and the date 1715; this front gable itself appears to be an early C19 reconstruction, and perhaps represents the re-orientation of an earlier roofline parallel to the street, and the creation of an attic storey. The date is consistent with the quality of timber framing exposed in the side passage and to the rear.
Description: Wide gable facing the street, with shallower gabled wing to rear. Frontage is rendered, probably over rubble or brick, with box-framed timbering of thin scantling exposed in side wall and to rear. Slate roof. C20 shop front with central door and flanking small-paned windows occupies the entire ground floor, with passage entry to right. 16-pane sash windows with cambered heads above, and a smaller window renewed in earlier opening in gable apex.
Of particular interest as an early C18 vernacular town house, and part of a group at the upper end of High Street.
References: Ion Trant, The Changing Face of Welshpool, 1986, p.34.
Nearby in the register
- 30 High StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 29 High StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- Mermaid InnDomesticunder 1 mi
- 26 High StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.