Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Old Fire Station
Knighton, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Civil
- Date of designation
- 30 September 1985
- Community
- Knighton
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.34438, -3.05432
- Cadw reference
- 9019
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 street at junction with Market Street and Offa's Road.
Exterior
Tall and narrow coursed rubble building with gable end to street, in use as the fire station by 1901 (mentioned on OS Map) and probably converted from an earlier C19 agricultural building. Slate roof, plain bargeboards, wide eaves. Roughcast gable, weatherboarding to upper part of front with one 2-light window. Double boarded doors below with letter box set into the wall to the left. 2-pane window to right side. Building narrows to rear and turns slightly east with cambered heads to door and window openings.
Reason for designation
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- 29 Market StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 30 Market StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 31 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.