Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Fingerpost on junction of Offa’s Road and West Street
Knighton, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Knighton, Powys, designated on 13 October 2022.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- No class recorded
- Date of designation
- 13 October 2022
- Welsh name
- Mynegbost ar gyffordd Heol Offa a West Street
- Locality
- Knighton
- Community
- Knighton
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.34566, -3.05358
- Cadw reference
- 87883
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1637 · Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 180 Knighton (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
On the W side of the junction of Offa’s Road (B4355) and West Street, at the point where they join Knucklas Road.
History
Finger post on the A488 giving directions to Llandrindod Wells, Bleddfa and Penybont, and Beguildy. The sign to Beguildy is a replacement, possibly replacing an arm giving directions to the north of the A488.
Erected by Radnor County Council after the 1888 Local Government Act gave responsibility for roads to each County Council, so late C19 or early C20. The A488 is a cross-country and cross-border A-road linking Shrewsbury with, originally Llandrindod Wells, now Penybont and the junction with the A44. This finger post predates to realignment of the A488 to the south of the town of Knighton along the line of Ffydd Road (previously designated the B4355). The A488 originally followed the line of Offa’s Road and West Street.
Exterior
Cast iron finger post with three arms (one replacement). Plain post, banded black and white, moulded capital. Two arms with raised lettering, above with ‘LLANDRINDOD WELLS 18 ½’ below with ‘BLEDDFA 6 ¾ PENYBONT 13 ½’, both with ‘A488’ in a box. Later arm ‘BEGUILDY 8’. Post topped with ring inscribed ‘RADNOR CC’.
Reason for designation
Included, notwithstanding the replacement of one of the arms, for its special architectural interest as a rare surviving example of an late C19 / early C20 fingerpost, a type of street furniture once common but now increasingly rare.
Nearby in the register
- Water HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- 21 Market StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- Offa's Dyke: Section extending 202m from River Teme to West StreetLinear Earthworkunder 1 mi
- The Harp (formerly The Police Station)Commercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.