Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
37&38 High Street
Welshpool, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Institutional
- Date of designation
- 11 March 1981
- Locality
- Welshpool
- Community
- Welshpool
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.66083, -3.14983
- Cadw reference
- 7809
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
Opposite Park Lane.
Exterior
History: Originally built as a pair, c1820 (and roofed as a continuous build with No 36); probably incorporating the fabric of an earlier building on the site - the Bear Inn was in existence by 1759. Formerly the Bear Inn, No 37 was later a private house and became the Conservative Club in 1898. No 38 was previously in separate occupation but was incorporated into No 37 c1950.
Exterior: Painted brick with slate roof. 3 storeys, 4-window range with central entrance. Doric portico porch, renewed door with fanlight in moulded architrave, flanked by C20 inserted oriel windows to ground floor. The arched entrance to Bear Passage is partly included at the right hand end. Upper windows are 12-pane sashes with flat arched heads. 6-pane sash windows below eaves in upper storey. Coved eaves cornice, continuous with No 36. Rear wing largely a modern addition which may represent the reconstruction of an earlier range.
An early C19 tenement retaining some of its original character which forms part of a group of C18-C19 town houses on High Street.
References: Robert Owen, 'Welshpool Landmarks' Montgomeryshire Collections, Vol.38, 1918, p.176;
Ion Trant, The Changing Face of Welshpool, 1986, p.37.
Nearby in the register
- 36 High StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 41 High StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 42 High StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 34 High StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.