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
8295
Building Number
5  
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
10/04/1989  
Date of Amendment
10/04/1989  
Name of Property
Alliance & Leicester  
Address
5 High Street  

Location


Unitary Authority
Powys  
Community
Llanidloes  
Town
 
Locality
 
Easting
295567  
Northing
284414  
Street Side
 
Location
Stepped up from the Angel Inn PH to left; Cemetery Square to right.  

Description


Broad Class
Commercial  
Period
 

History
ca 1870-75 front to ca 1840 structure built by Benjamin Jones. Victorian Gothic reflected pair.  

Exterior
3-storey, 2-window gabled red brick front with freestone window dressings and stock brick quoins and cill bands. Slate roof, wide boarded eaves and stock brick chimney stack with red brick banding. The second floor windows rise into the gables, the bargeboards to which are ogee shaped and ornamented with punched roundels; finials retained. Paired horned sash windows with hoodmoulds, chamfered mullions and punched roundels to the spandrels. Acutely pointed and stilted heads to 2nd floor and Caernarvon arch heads to 1st floor which has a toothed impost band. Both retain fine contemporary shopfronts with end and centrally dividing composite pilasters, that to left end is panelled; florid ornament to brackets and overall cornice. Saw tooth lintels to openings which have flanking colonnettes; panelled spandrels and reveals. Large shop windows with glazing bars only to top; half glazed double doors at ends. English Garden wall bond red brick 2-window right hand side with nearly flush frames to horned sash windows, one is small pane. Bracket cornice to doorcase with modern door. Red brick rear with chimney breast, modern windows and single storey lean-to.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
Group value.  

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