Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Mandarin House (Chinese Take-Away)
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
- 52.34429, -3.05167
- Cadw reference
- 8974
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
Forward to the street facing down High Street.
History
Late C18/early C19
Exterior
3-storey and basement cement render to front with brick right gable end and brick and rubble left gable end. Slate roof, boxed eaves, plain bargeboards, brick end stacks. Band course over ground floor. 3 windows, paired casements to 2nd floor, 16-pane sashes under cambered heads to 1st floor. Double shop front with hood on curved brackets recessed entrance with glazed and timber door; gated right side entrance. Single storey and attic extension to left, roughcast walls, stone plinth, slate roof.
Reason for designation
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- Rafa ClubRecreationalunder 1 mi
- W. Gerrard, HairdresserCommercialunder 1 mi
- G.D.Eastment, Jeweller and FoodstoreCommercialunder 1 mi
- 46 Market StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.