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Knighton, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Knighton, Powys, designated on 30 September 1985.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 30 September 1985
- Community
- Knighton
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.34409, -3.04964
- Cadw reference
- 8962
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 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
One of a pair of buildings forward to the street and separated by a passage to site of Methodist Chapel.
History
Dated 1882
Exterior
Victorian Romanesque 3-storey patterned brick gable end set into slope of street. Slate roof, gable parapet with finial, brick stack. Light banded polychrome decoration to window arches, dark brick hoodmouldings and yellow brick quoins. 2 semi-circular-headed sash windows with glazing bars flank a higher blind arch on 2nd floor. Saw-toothed cornice below. 3 semi-circular-headed windows to 1st floor with pilasters, nook shafts and flat foliage detail, cill band. Flush shop front with dentilled cornice to entablature; triple semi-circular-headed lights with recessed entrance in left opening.
Reason for designation
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- Halifax Building Society & Radnor District Council OfficesCommercialunder 1 mi
- George and Dragon P.H.Commercialunder 1 mi
- The Old HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Elizabeth's Fashions & SolitaireCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.