Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Youth Hostel Association and Heritage Centre (former Primary School)
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
- 52.34582, -3.05118
- Cadw reference
- 9027
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
In its own railed yard set back from and below street level at the North end of the town with recreation ground behind.
History
Built in 1865 as Knighton National School (for about 360 children) on land donated by Green Price family. Later additions in 1911 by William Cadwallader.
Exterior
Mid-Victorian Gothic symmetrical single-storey and attic composition with outer cross-gables and paired gables to centre, lateral extensions to outer ends. Rubble walls with freestone dressings, rusticated quoins; slate roofs with cresting, rubble and brick chimney stacks. Outer gables with parapets and attics lit by small rectangular lights. Grouped 4-light cusped windows under banded relieving arches to outer windows.
Centre set back slightly with 2 steep-pitched gables, ornamental bargeboards with scissor braces and 2-light bar traceried windows. Pitched roof rubble porch to right with Berkeley arch to entrance. 2 later additions forward to the street with square headed windows. Gothic windows to rear of side elevations.
Nearby in the register
- Baptist ChurchReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- 2 Russell StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 1 Russell StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- Hengoed HouseCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.