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
8070
Building Number
12
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
09/05/1988
Date of Amendment
09/05/1988
Name of Property
12 Crescent Street
Address
12 Crescent Street
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Newtown and Llanllwchaiarn
Town
Locality
Penygloddfa
Easting
310651
Northing
291997
Street Side
SW
Location
On the street line near the junction with Union Street. Stepped down from Nos 10 and 13 adjoining.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Early C19, Georgian.
Exterior
Interior
Reason for designation
Group value.
Group Description
11 & 12 Commercial Street and Joiner's Court to rear, Penygloddfa, Newtown
3 storey pair of 1 window former back to back houses. Painted English garden wall bond brick. Gently pitched slate roof. Dentilled eaves cornice. Brick end stacks.
Shallow 4 pane late C19 sashes to 2nd floor. C19 4 pane sashes to 1st and ground floors. Cambered brick voussoirs, plain reveals, stone sills. Blocked windows to centre at 1st and 2nd floor over tunnel passage. Good small paned iron casements to rear of No 11. Cambered header arches. Doorways with plain doorcases, gabled hoods on brackets, original doors. Round arched tunnel passage entry to centre.
Cobbled court to rear formerly Joiner's Court. Later sunk drains. Range of 3, 2 storey cottages. Painted English garden wall bond brick. Slate roof, dentil eaves cornice. Brick stacks, truncated to right. Decayed 2 light small paned iron casement below eaves to 1st floor. Top left opening light. Cross windows to ground floor; iron opening light. Cambered headed arches shallow reveals, no sills. Doorways offset to right except on right end cottage where it was to left but is now blocked. Cambered header arches. Heavy frame; repaired plank doors. Good rare example of the smaller houses found within the courts.
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