Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
'Corner House' Market Street
Llanfyllin, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Llanfyllin, Powys, designated on 25 October 1951.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 25 October 1951
- Town
- Llanfyllin
- Community
- Llanfyllin
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.76607, -3.27343
- Cadw reference
- 87488
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)
- 1897 · 137 Oswestry (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
On prominent site on W corner of High Street and Market Street
History
C18 and C19 house, became 'Corner House' temperance hotel in later C19.
Exterior
Three storeys, stucco with hipped slate roof, four bays to Market Street, two to High Street. Heavy Italianate bracketed cornice. Upper floor windows nine-pane hornless sashes with shallow moulded architraves, stone sills. First floor windows have moulded architraves with cornices, twelve-pane hornless sash glazing. On ground floor, corner has late C19 shopfront. Double-leaf door (part-glazed) with rectangular overlight, single shopwindow to R (High Street), double shopwindow to L (Market Street), panelled stallrisers; composition articulated by pilasters supporting volutes and gabled fascia tabernacles between which are fascia boards with dentil cornice over. To L of shopfront in Market Street is entrance doorway with bracketed hood. To L of doorway, tripartite window with central twelve pane sash flanked by narrow sashes, deep cornice over.
Reason for designation
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- 4 Market StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- 1 Market StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- 6 Market StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- London HouseCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.