Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Old Police Station and Magistrates Court
Rhayader, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Rhayader, Powys, designated on 4 August 1989.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Civil
- Date of designation
- 4 August 1989
- Community
- Rhayader
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.29957, -3.51236
- Cadw reference
- 9350
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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)
- 1898 · 179 Rhyader (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
To SW of the town centre. On a levelled site above the road opposite junction with Church Street.
History
Circa 1870. Style of Pritchard and Seddon, but possibly by S W Williams of Rhayader, County Surveyor. Comprises Tudorbethan Police Station (to L), and Gothic magistrates court to right: H-plan with porches to both angles.
Exterior
Mainly single-storey, but attic to police station. Rubble with freestone dressings, paler to magistrates court, which has deep red brick voussoir arches. Below the sill band at angles are unusual ramped buttresses. Slate roofs with cresting, and dog-tooth eaves band to R; gabled cross range to L, and gablet roof to taller court at R with iron finials and conical ventilator. The police station has twinned horned sash windows to both floors with relieving arches and chamfered jambs. Distinctive porch inscribed 'Police Station' with R side stepped inwards above the impost to a Caernarfon Arch derived entrance on which the shoulders are roll-moulded. Studded, pointed arch door. 3-grouped windows to centre with Caernarfon arched heads and latticework bars over the glazing. Gabled porch to the magistrates court; freestone dog-toothed pointed arched over flatter brick arch; label and dog-toothed ornament returned around the L side. Studded pointed arch doors. Three windows to R grouped under continuous label; red brick pointed arches over horned 12-pane sashes with stop-chamfered jambs. Lattice work ventilation panel to the gablet. 3 similar but not grouped, windows to the R side and slate hanging to rear.
Rubble forecourt wall with roll-moulded band.
Reason for designation
Included as well-preserved example of building type.
Nearby in the register
- Tabernacle ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Cwmdeuddwr ArmsCommercialunder 1 mi
- Former Tourist Information CentreRecreationalunder 1 mi
- Shop on S CornerCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.