Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
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Knighton, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Knighton, Powys, designated on 29 December 1950.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Health and Welfare
- Date of designation
- 29 December 1950
- Community
- Knighton
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.34482, -3.04859
- Cadw reference
- 9031
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
Facing down Wylcwm Street, with side elevation forward to the street.
History
Early C19.
Exterior
Late Georgian 3-storey, 3-window cement render front with rusticated long and short work quoins and advanced giant arch to central bay with similar detailing to the angles. Hipped slate roof, wide eaves, brick stack to right. Later 2-light sash windows to each floor with rusticated surrounds and voussoir lintels. Flat bracketed hood to porch, with recessed 6-panel door under 5-pane fanlight. Plain cement rendered left side elevation.
Modern extensions to the right are not of special interest.
Contemporary 3-sided single storey and attic courtyard, formerly containing stables, adjoining to NW; open to street side. Rendered rubble walls, slate roofs, brick stack. Plain rubble gable end to NW range with boarded loft door to inner side internally retaining original roof construction of overlapping purlins.
Rubble boundary wall to front garden on site of original almshouses.
Nearby in the register
- 10 Church StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- Manor HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Burford HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Prince & Pugh LtdCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.