Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Trustees Savings Bank
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
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 11 March 1981
- Locality
- Welshpool
- Community
- Welshpool
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.65941, -3.14657
- Cadw reference
- 7848
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
Next to the Royal Oak Hotel.
Exterior
History: Purpose-built as the Welshpool and Montgomery Savings Bank and dated 1863. Prior to its construction, the bank had operated from a room in the Town Hall. It is now the Trustee Savings Bank.
Description: Brick with smooth rendered lower storey and dressings. Slate roof on boldly projecting eaves, with gable end stacks, brick with moulded stone caps. 2 storeys, with high upper storey; 3-window range, the central bay in the upper storey slightly advanced. Doorway to left, with double doors of 3 moulded panels below overlight. 2 sash windows to right. String course over ground floor, and a narrower sill band to the 3 upper windows, which have recessed panelled aprons between the 2 bands, and are 4-pane sashes with finely gauged brick heads. Central window is brought forward in an architrave with entablature hood, and has a balustraded balcony projecting on moulded corbels which are lettered 'Savings Bank' on their outer faces. Deep frieze over the first floor is inscribed with fine lettering 'Savings Bank 1863'. Projecting cornice. 2 storeyed narrow extension to the right has 6-panelled doorway.
An excellent, well-preserved example of a purpose-built bank.
Reference: Robert Owen, Some Descriptive Notices of the Town and Suburbs of Welshpool, 1902, p.11.
Nearby in the register
- Royal Oak HotelCommercialunder 1 mi
- 26 Severn StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- 25 Severn StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 1 Berriew StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.