Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
The Harp (formerly The Police Station)
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
- 52.34442, -3.05365
- Cadw reference
- 9015
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 and part of a continuous row of frontages.
Exterior
Early C19 symmetrical 2-storey whitewashed coursed rubble front. Low hipped slate roof, wide boxed eaves, 2 later brick stacks plus 1 stepped out to right rear. 3 windows, 16-pane sashes with plain reveals and voussoirs to ground floor. Shallow 1-storey porch with plain entablature, recessed half-glazed door with incised panels.
Reason for designation
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- 35 Market StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 34 Market StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 33 Market StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 32 Market StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.