Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Royal Welsh Warehouse
Newtown and Llanllwchaiarn, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 9 May 1988
- Community
- Newtown and Llanllwchaiarn
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.51299, -3.31081
- Cadw reference
- 8109
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 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Prominently sited on the street line curving round towards the Railway Station from Kerry Road.
History
1879 by David Walker of Liverpool for Pryce Jones, founder of the world's first mail order business in 1859. The initial building was added to in 1886-87, and a large new wing erected towards Kerry Rd in 1901. This included a post office to handle the immense volume of orders. The building remains in use as a department store.
Interior
Transverse beams on plain cast iron columns. Good imperial staircase to 1st and 2nd floors. Royal Arms to stained glass window on 1st floor landing stating royal patronage; divided from later wing by iron sliding fireproof doors; original fittings.
Reason for designation
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- Royal Welsh WarehouseCommercialunder 1 mi
- Agriculture HouseCommercialunder 1 mi
- Railway StationTransportunder 1 mi
- Queen's Head PHCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.