Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Radnor House including Annie's Cake Shop and Nick's Bargain Centre
Presteigne, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Presteigne, Powys, designated on 26 March 1985.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 26 March 1985
- Community
- Presteigne
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.27320, -3.00649
- Cadw reference
- 8874
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 1637 map "Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1637 · Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV.Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. a. England ab sich: Shire:15-17, 33 (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 corner with Green End opposite the Market Hall.
History
1890s Arts and Crafts influence, possibly earlier structure behind the unusual frontage.
Exterior
2 storeys, 3 half timbered bays, applied black and white treatment with cusped panels and ornamental pargetting infill. High tiled roofs, over sailing eaves, hipped roof over centre bay with tiny swept dormers and cusped lights, panelled bargeboards with finials to outer gables, jettied over 1st floor cantilevered bays of 4-lights each. Coloured mosaic tiles to frieze over ground floor fascia with continuous crenellated cornice. Shop windows with small-paned heads, 3 doorways with Gothic panelled doors, coloured glazing to fanlights, doorway on splayed corner.
Older rubble built and slated wing to rear.
Reason for designation
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- Whitehall HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Farmer's ArmsCommercialunder 1 mi
- Corner Shop including flat overCommercialunder 1 mi
- Market HallCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.