CPAT Regional Sites & Monuments Record

PRN 30662 - Welshpool, High Street 2
Listed Building 7789 (II )

C18. 3 storeys. Painted brick. 2 sash windows with glazing bars. Simple projecting shopfront of mid-Victorian type, with cornice. Through-passage on left. Slightly projecting eaves. Stair with original turned balusters.

(Former listing description)

The following is from Cadw's Listed Buildings database

Opposite the Town Hall.

An early C19 building, replacing an earlier structure on the site.

Painted brick, slate roof with end wall stacks. 3 storeys, 2-window range, with late C19-early C20 type shop-front to ground floor: central recessed entrance with flanking windows divided by a slim central mullion, and with moulded fascia. Upper windows are 12-pane sashes, with steep cambered arched heads to first floor, and flat arched heads to second storey below the eaves. Passage entry with plank doorway to the left of the shop front.

Included as a well-preserved early C19 town-building, retaining some original detail, and with a typical late c19 shop front. It forms part of an important group of buildings on the High Street.

Sources:-
Cadw , 1981 , Powys: List No. 16 (Welshpool) , 22
Cadw Listing database , 2000 , ,

record created 31/12/89 , last updated 11/01/94
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Clwyd Powys Archaeological Trust, Curatorial Section, 7a Church Street, Welshpool, Powys SY21 7DL.
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