Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Former Station Building at New Radnor, including adjacent Platform
New Radnor, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in The Smatcher, New Radnor, Powys, designated on 29 April 1993.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 29 April 1993
- Locality
- The Smatcher
- Community
- New Radnor
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.23648, -3.14853
- Cadw reference
- 9266
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
Lies 100m south of A44, 0.5km south-east of New Radnor.
History
Formerly the terminus station on the Kington to New Radnor branch of the Kington and Eardisley Railway, opened September 25th 1875.
Exterior
Single-storey, coursed rock-faced rubble blocks, high plinth, lean-to at east end housing lavatory. Slate roof with ridge cresting, decorative pierced bargeboards and eaves boards, brick end stack. Platform side has tall central entry with framed, plank double doors. Flanking tall, cross-pattern windows deep-set with stone cills and cambered heads. Two similar windows to rear. Boarded door under cambered head to lean-to section.
Interior
Two rooms; waiting-room with hooped cast-iron fire-place, boarded partition to booking office with 'ticket window'.
Nearby in the register
- Former Goods Shed at New Radnor StationTransportunder 1 mi
- The GroveDomesticunder 1 mi
- Monument to Sir George Cornewall LewisCommemorativeunder 1 mi
- The Old RectoryDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.