Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
16671
Building Number
30
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
11/03/1981
Date of Amendment
29/02/1996
Name of Property
30 High Street
Address
30 High Street
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Welshpool
Town
Locality
Welshpool
Easting
322261
Northing
307635
Street Side
N
Location
Alongside the Mermaid Public House.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Exterior
History: Built as a pair of houses c1835, on a site with a longer history of occupation. The ground floor of No 29 was in use as a shop by 1881; No 30 was converted into a shop c1950.
Exterior: Painted brick street elevation, with rough local rubble to side and rear; tiled roof with brick axial stacks set in front and rear slopes of the roof. Symmetrical shop fronts of c1950, each with outer doorway, and continuous fascia; 12-pane sashes to first floor, 9-pane above, all with flat arched rendered heads with stressed keystones. Left gable has finely lettered tablet recording 'Party Wall'.
Interior: Ground floor layouts altered on conversion to shops, but the upper accommodation substantially retains its original form; fine shallow spiral oak staircase rising from ground to first floor in short rear wing of No 29.
The building retains much of its character as an early C19 pair, and forms part of a group at the upper end of High Street.
References: Ion Trant, The Changing Face of Welshpool, 1986, p.34;
Information from owner.
Interior
Reason for designation
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