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
7490
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
08/01/1988
Date of Amendment
19/01/2001
Name of Property
Llanwrtyd Wells Station & North Platform
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Llanwrtyd Wells
Town
Builth Wells
Locality
Llanwrtyd Wells
Easting
288314
Northing
246412
Street Side
S
Location
Small station building with large forecourt set below road and sited on the N railway platform. Approx 0.6km SE of the town centre.
Description
Broad Class
Transport
Period
History
Dated 1865, the section of line from Builth was opened in 1867 by the Central Wales Extension railway company (later LNWR). The building was refurbished in 1988 when it was converted for business use, with the exception of the E bay which is a waiting room.
Exterior
Low single-storey entrance and station building constructed of brown brick with yellow brick quoins and dressings and some freestone detailing. Slate roofs with wide bracketed eaves and plain bargeboards. Two tall paired chimney stacks with cornice bands and polygonal weatherings. Yellow brick strainer arches above openings with blue brick keystones. Doved chamfered stone lintels, stone sills and yellow brick reveals to openings. Five openings to platform side; 3 diagonally boarded doors (half-glazed, double and single) and 2 wooden windows (3rd and 4th from L). These are 3-light with transom and decorative marginal glazing bars. To the L end is a narrower blue brick addition, with 3 small late C20 windows under chamfered stone lintels, to the R of which is a 2-light window with decorative marginal glazing.
The entrance front has double doors to the centre flanked by 2 windows to the R and 1 to the L, all with detail as platform side. The far L bay is set back and lower, with a single door to the R, slightly advanced, and a 6-pane window to its L. Attached to the gable of the higher section is the datestone reading 1865. Similar 6-pane window to E gable end. The blue brick addition to the R has an eaves stack to the far R and 2 narrow 3-pane windows to the L with chamfered stone lintels. Doorway as elsewhere to gable end under a segmental head and smaller bay adjoining.
Stone flagged cappings to platform edge, and blue brick facings.
Interior
The E bay, accessed from the platform, is a waiting room with surrounding late C20 seating. The remainder of the station building is used for commercial purposes.
Reason for designation
Listed as a fine unaltered wayside station on the Central Wales Extension railway.
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