Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
23 Severn Street
Welshpool, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Welshpool, Powys, designated on 1 September 1954.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 1 September 1954
- Locality
- Welshpool
- Community
- Welshpool
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.65901, -3.14615
- Cadw reference
- 7853
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
Part of a continuous development on the S side of the street.
Exterior
Probably c1800, pre-dating the Mansion House of 1820 which encloses it to the rear. Painted brick to street elevation, slate roof. 3 storeys, 3-window range with central entrance; 6-panelled door with overlight recessed in a flat arched opening and up steps, flanked on each floor by wide 16-pane hornless sash windows with flat arched brick heads; continuous sill band to first floor, and lower 12-pane sashes below eaves in upper storey. Plain eaves band.
A well-detailed early C19 town house which forms part of an important group developed in the early years of the C19 on the S side of Severn Street.
Reference: Ion Trant, The Changing Face of Welshpool, 1986, p.89.
Nearby in the register
- 22 Severn StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- Mansion House including railings to streetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 21 Severn StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 20 Severn StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.