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
7440
Building Number
16-18
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
16/09/1991
Date of Amendment
16/09/1991
Name of Property
The Plough Inn P.H.
Address
16-18 Market Strret
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Builth
Town
Locality
Easting
304150
Northing
250903
Street Side
Location
On corner of Market Street and Brecon Road.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
In appearance, essentially a late C18 building with earlier nineteenth century alterations and additions, but probably has earlier origins.
Exterior
L-shaped plan, with longer range facing Market Street, shorter range facing Brecon Road.
Partly timber-framed (generally rendered over but some nineteenth century framing visible to rear of Brecon Road wing); partly local rubble stone. Some dressings in brown-yellow brick.
Shallow-pitched slate roof hipped to right and with overhang at left gable end. Rendered chimneystacks, that to left of Market Street front has two diagonally set square extensions. Pilaster strips at ends of Market Street front. Three storeys. Market Street front is four windows wide but not symmetrical, with windows grouped symmetrically around the right door then a wider space to left before windows resume, grouping with door to private entrance. Small pane hornless sash windows, 9 pane on second floor, 12 pane on first and ground floors (but window to left of public entrance has later three-light window lighting bar). Windows are set flush with the walls and have painted surrounds on first and second floors, set deeper without surrounds on ground floor, which has thick walls.
Brecon Road facade shows clear vertical joint in masonry indicating formerly two premises. At lower left, low delivery door to cellar (with painted brick dressings) and to its right cellar window (with rubble voussoirs) now blocked with red bricks. Three small-paned sash windows, on second floor 9 panes and hornless, on first and ground floors 12 paned and horned, all flush set with brick dressings. To Left of join in masonry, a door beneath cambered arch in stone, then 3 sash windows set deeper than those to left all with rubble voussoirs. At angle of building, recess said to have once held pier of former tollgate.
At rear of Market Street block, 1st and 2nd floor windows of same period as front. On ground floor, modern single-storey extensions. Rear of Brecon Road block incorporates thin C19 timber framing with brick infill.
Interior
Reason for designation
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