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
7853
Building Number
23
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
01/09/1954
Date of Amendment
29/02/1996
Name of Property
23 Severn Street
Address
23 Severn Street
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Welshpool
Town
Locality
Welshpool
Easting
322573
Northing
307427
Street Side
S
Location
Part of a continuous development on the S side of the street.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Exterior
Probably c1800, pre-dating the Mansion House of 1820 which encloses it to the rear. Painted brick to street elevation, slate roof. 3 storeys, 3-window range with central entrance; 6-panelled door with overlight recessed in a flat arched opening and up steps, flanked on each floor by wide 16-pane hornless sash windows with flat arched brick heads; continuous sill band to first floor, and lower 12-pane sashes below eaves in upper storey. Plain eaves band.
A well-detailed early C19 town house which forms part of an important group developed in the early years of the C19 on the S side of Severn Street.
Reference: Ion Trant, The Changing Face of Welshpool, 1986, p.89.
Interior
Reason for designation
Cadw : Full Report for Listed Buildings [ Records 1 of 1 ]
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