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
7855
Building Number
25
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
11/03/1981
Date of Amendment
29/02/1996
Name of Property
25 Severn Street
Address
25 Severn Street
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Welshpool
Town
Locality
Welshpool
Easting
322553
Northing
307440
Street Side
S
Location
Part of a continuous development on the S side of the street.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Exterior
The building may be C18 in origin, but was remodelled c1830. Lined-out render with slate roof overhanging on modillion eaves cornice. 2 storeyed, 3-window range with central entrance. Trellis work cast-iron porch with Greek key pattern houses entrance: a 4-panelled, partly glazed door with moulded entablature hood recessed in shallow segmental archway with fanlight. Flanking windows are tripartite sashes with cambered heads in moulded architraves. Continuous sill band to 12-pane sash windows of first floor, which also have stressed architraves.
The building is a well-detailed early C19 town house retaining much of its original character externally. It forms part of an important group of properties developed in the early years of the C19 on the S side of Severn Street.
Interior
Reason for designation
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