Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Halifax Building Society & Radnor District Council Offices
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
- 52.34406, -3.04953
- Cadw reference
- 8963
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. Tiled roof, gable parapet with finial. Light banded polychrome decoration to window arches, dark brick hoodmouldings and yellow brick quoins. 2 semi-circular-headed windows flank a higher blind arch (containing Prince of Wales' emblem) on 2nd floor, saw-toothed cornice below. 3 semi-circular-leaded cross windows to 1st floor with pilasters, nook shafts and flat foliage detail, cill band. Later slate roofed lean-to shop front with 3 semi-circular-leaded lights, similar to No 2. Doorway to right side.
Reason for designation
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- BookshopCommercialunder 1 mi
- George and Dragon P.H.Commercialunder 1 mi
- Elizabeth's Fashions & SolitaireCommercialunder 1 mi
- S.T. & H.M. Huyton, Gents OutfittersCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.