Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Denbigh House
Llanfyllin, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 22 March 1993
- Community
- Llanfyllin
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.76651, -3.27356
- Cadw reference
- 8592
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 Llanfyllin Post Office.
History
C17 building remodelled circa 1900 with shopfront extensions of same period.
Exterior
Two storeys plus attics with applied 'half timbering' possibly covering timber-framed original building; slate roof, red brick central chimney. Three dormers with carved bargeboards and finials; small pane casement glazing. First floor has small-pane casement window below each dormer; applied mock timber-framing. On ground floor, building enlarged forward as flat roofed shop extension in red brick with two late C19 type shopfronts. Each shop has central double-leaf doors (part glazed) set back between shop windows; classically derived end pilasters with fascia and cornice over. To rear, elevation facing churchyard has rendered upper storey with applied 'half-timbering', three small-pane casement windows. On brick ground floor, door to each shop, two
small-pane casement windows, and, to R, larger window with six-pane horned sash glazing. Interior of shops has longitudinal moulded beam supported on iron stanchions with spurious inscriptions '1501' and 'Powis'.
Reason for designation
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- Denbigh HouseCommercialunder 1 mi
- 29 High StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- Post OfficeCommunicationsunder 1 mi
- BakeryCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.