Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
20 Union Street (including 12 Bryn Street)
Newtown and Llanllwchaiarn, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 9 May 1988
- Locality
- Penygloddfa
- Community
- Newtown and Llanllwchaiarn
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.51865, -3.31733
- Cadw reference
- 8181
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1637 "Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Prominently situated at the corner of Union Street with Bryn Street.
History
Early C19 Georgian
Exterior
Corner unit utilizing zig-zag internal partitions in order to present 3 window symmetric facade to Union Street. 1 tier of windows from No 12 Bryn Street face Union Street.
3 storey and cellar. 3 window front to Union Street; 2 window to Bryn Street, dummies on left. Flemish bond brick. Gently pitched slate roof, hip to corner. Lead ridges. Saw tooth eaves cornice. Exposed purlins and rafters to rear. Brick stacks.
Shallow upper sashes to 12 pane 2nd floor windows. 9 pane to centre on Union Street; dummy to left on Bryn Street. 16 pane sashes flank doorway to Union Street. Original panelled shutters on pintles to Bryn Street. Blocked(?) window to left. Gauged brick voussoirs, plain reveals, stone sill.
Steps to doorcase on Union Street. Bracketed, moulded dripboard, panelled reveals. Rectangular fanlight, 6 panel door. Similar doorcase to Bryn Street, no fanlight.
Iron lights to wooden cross windows on rear.
Backyard with later C19 outbuildings. English garden wall bond brick. Gabled slate roofs, ornamental bargeboards. Cambered brick arches to openings. Outbuilding gable end to street. Rectangular fanlight to plank door; window to right, round arched, louvred vent over. 2 planks doors to tile capped yard wall.
Reason for designation
Group value with corner shop, Bryn Street.
Nearby in the register
- No.12 Bryn Street (including No.20 Union Street)Domesticunder 1 mi
- Outbuildings to rear of No.20 Union StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- Corner ShopCommercialunder 1 mi
- 35 Crescent StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.