Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
George and Dragon P.H.
Knighton, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 30 September 1985
- Community
- Knighton
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.34403, -3.04938
- Cadw reference
- 8964
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Forward to the street, set into slope.
Exterior
Dated 1637 on left side. Later 2-storey and basement roughcast front with end pilasters. Slate roof, no eaves, brick stack to left. 3 sash windows to 1st floor (3-light to left) with broad moulded architraves. 6-panel recessed door under bracketed hood up steps to centre. C20 1-storey extension to ground floor right with slate roof and 5-light leaded window. Boarded door to right. 3-light sash window to left with moulded and pedimented architrave. Recessed basement entrance below with chamfered Tudor arch. Roughcast gabled left side with plain bargeboards. 3 windows to 1st floor, attic windows above. Roughcast rear with modern windows and projecting roughcast and brick chimney stack. Gable ended cross range to right.
Interior
Interior retains one ground floor room to rear right with C18 reset panelling said to be from former church pews.
Reason for designation
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- Halifax Building Society & Radnor District Council OfficesCommercialunder 1 mi
- BookshopCommercialunder 1 mi
- S.T. & H.M. Huyton, Gents OutfittersCommercialunder 1 mi
- Elizabeth's Fashions & SolitaireCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.