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
8111
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
09/05/1988
Date of Amendment
09/05/1988
Name of Property
Agriculture House
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Newtown and Llanllwchaiarn
Town
Locality
Easting
311187
Northing
291366
Street Side
Location
Prominently sited opposite the Royal Welsh Warehouse on the junction of Kerry Road with the lane leading to the Railway Station.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
Built 1895 as a factory for Pryce Jones on the site of an earlier one. Served as Admiralty victualling station during World War II. Taken over by the Agricultural Executive Committee and later ADAS.
Exterior
5 storey and attic red brick with stock brick bands. V-shaped with principal elevation to Railway Station. Gabled slate roofs, eaves cornice. 9 bay front. Gabled dormer bearing date 1895 over 2nd to 4th bays from right. Paired shallow sash windows to attic storey. Attic cornice, broad stock brick entablature. 3rd and 4th floor windows between pilasters over 3rd floor band. Keystones to cambered arches, small paned cross windows. Similar to 2nd and 1st floor. Plain cambered arches to ground floor. Dummy windows to right end wall flank brick stack. Similar elevation to Kerry Rd with broad carriageway to left. Recessed canted bay to corner, similar fenestration. Freestone doorcase. Trucated pilasters on brackets carry finials. Rectangular panel with dragons passant supporting arms of Gwynedd. Keystoned round arched doorway. A bridge formerly linked this corner at 3rd floor level to the 1901 extension of the Royal Welsh Warehouse.
Interior
Reason for designation
Group Value.
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