Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Hengoed House
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
- 52.34458, -3.05143
- Cadw reference
- 9005
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 opposite the RAFA Club.
Exterior
Tall late Georgian 3-storey, 1-window rendered front to long and narrow building. Slate roof with uneven ridge. Gable ends to Market Street and Russell Street with projecting plain bargeboards. Casement window to 2nd floor in moulded architrave, 16-pane sash window to 1st floor.
Shop front with projecting boxed cornice on timber pilasters with vacant recessed panels and plain capitals. 3-light shop window, recessed entrance, 4-panelled door, fanlight above. Plain left side elevation with brick lean-to buttresses. 4 storey to roughcast rear, case window to top floor, metal frame to 2nd and 3rd. Vertically boarded door to rubble ground floor, brick stack to right rear.
Reason for designation
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- 2 Russell StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- Rafa ClubRecreationalunder 1 mi
- 1 Russell StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- G.D.Eastment, Jeweller and FoodstoreCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.