Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Albert Hall
Llandrindod Wells, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Recreational
- Date of designation
- 30 September 1985
- Community
- Llandrindod Wells
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.23998, -3.38337
- Cadw reference
- 9057
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
Situated on a downhill slope close to the centre of the town; beside the presbyterian chapel.
History
Dated 1896, refitted 1922 for commercial entertainment.
Exterior
2-storey and basement, 5-window English Renaissance brick front with Art Nouveau entrance. Hipped slate roof. Advanced central pedimented bay with dentilled cornice on pilasters with acanthus capitals. Stringcoures hoodmoulds to 1st floor; paired sash windows under semicircular fanlights. Paired sashes under stone lintels to ground floor left and right and Venetian window arrangement to centre entrance up steps. Panels to base of doors and curved radiating glazing bars above. Lean-to hood with brackets over. Minor alterations by W Beddoe Rees who rebuilt the basement as a schoolroom for the Presbyterian Chapel adjoining.
Interior
Interior retains raked auditorium and gallery with curved front. Rectangular proscenium arch and ornamental detail to boxes.
Reason for designation
Included for group value.
Nearby in the register
- Presbyterian ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Radnor District Council Offices (formerly Gwalia Hotel)Commercialunder 1 mi
- Telephone Call-box to rear of pavement close to junction with Norton TerraceCommunicationsunder 1 mi
- Oxford Chambers, Printers, Braddon, Oxford House, Greenstiles CyclesCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.