Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Norton Arms Hotel
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
- 52.34361, -3.04859
- Cadw reference
- 8965
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
Stone-built square block at the corner of Brookside and Broad Street.
History
Built by Sir Richard Green Price and opened in 1867.
Exterior
3-storey and basement rubble front with freestone dressings. 3-storey splayed bays to left and right, iron-railed balconies to first floor supported on curved iron brackets. Hipped slate roof, very wide bracket eaves with saw-tooth moulding. 3 rubble chimney stacks. Three 3-light grouped sash windows with wide glazing. Projecting central semi-octagonal porch with parapet and small semi-circular pediment and shield. 4-pane lights to sides and semi-circular arched entrance to centre with keystone and panelled pilasters, recessed 6 panel door with fanlight and panelled reveals.
7-bay gabled and half-timbered building of 1894 to right is not of special interest.
Interior
Interior retains 2-level galleries around main openwell stair with cusped braces and stop chamfered beams.
Nearby in the register
- Lamp PostGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- RailingsDomesticunder 1 mi
- Wylcwm House (Whittingham, Riddel and Co., Chartered Accountants)Commercialunder 1 mi
- Swan HotelCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.