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
8112
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
09/05/1988  
Date of Amendment
09/05/1988  
Name of Property
Railway Station  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Powys  
Community
Newtown and Llanllwchaiarn  
Town
 
Locality
 
Easting
311087  
Northing
291299  
Street Side
SW  
Location
On the lane leading off Kerry Road between Agriculture House and the Royal Welsh Warehouse.  

Description


Broad Class
Transport  
Period
 

History
Built c1868 for the Cambrian Railway at a cost of £1,200 following complaints about the old station.  

Exterior
Gothic, symmetrical entrance front with advanced gabled bays to ends, and porch to centre. Flemish bond brick on brick plinth. Steeply pitched slate roofs, crested ridge tiles. Bargeboards to advanced bays; pierced quatrafoils; finials and collared pendants to right. Brick stacks. Broad blue brick bands at window head and sill level, rising to pointed arches on advanced bays and porch. Stone window dressings, rusticated architraves. Foliate capitals to centre mullions on 2 light window. 1 light to outer bays and sides of advanced bays. Victorian sashes. Advanced porch to centre. Blue brick arch on detached columns, foliate capitals, large stone bases. Broad double doorway, stone lintel. "Gothic" panel doors and fanlight. Stone steps; later stone capped splayed side walls with foliated capitals. Interesting platform seats with cast iron arborial bench ends.  

Interior
Good interior to ticket office, original fittings. T & G panelling. Iron tension bars to trusses with cusped spandels.  

Reason for designation
Group value.  

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