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
8357
Building Number
4
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
10/04/1989
Date of Amendment
10/04/1989
Name of Property
Royal Head P.H.
Address
4 Short Bridge Street
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Llanidloes
Town
Locality
Easting
295374
Northing
284531
Street Side
Location
Midway between the junctions with Chapel Street and China Street; detached to left.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
Created out of the modern amalgamation of two adjoining public houses - King's Head and Royal Oak.
Exterior
C17 lobby entry timber-framed structure to left with later C19 alterations; greatly extended to right in C19. Long, black and white square panelled frontage; 2-storey, 3 + 3-window with added ground floor shopfront. The left hand part has wattle and daub infill, the right hand part has brick nogging (until recently it was rendered); slate roofs (renewed to left), slightly higher to right. Modern red brick stack to left and dark stack to centre of right hand part; wide boarded eaves to left and dentil eaves band to right. The C17 part has flush frame sash windows of varying sizes; those on 1st floor are small pane, the central one of which is 16-pane below gable with ornamental bargeboards and pendant. The ground floor has generally larger sashes, 2 are fixed glazed and those to the C19 part are recessed. Altered shop front to right with cornice and pilasters with 8-pane window; formerly also a shopfront to left hand end (see early C20 views). Modern boarded main door to public house and recessed half glazed door to right of shop front.
Pebbledash on rubble left gable end; casement and sash windows and red brick extension beyond. Modern extensions at rear. Large yard originally enclosed by a further range of buildings (see 1st edition OS map).
Interior
Internally, the hall (now the main bar) has an inglenook fireplace with deep bressumer and stop chamfered ceiling beams. Partition between hall and parlour has been removed and the latter has rubble triangular projection a probable C19 addition of 2 linked, angle fireplaces heating the service rooms at this end.
Reason for designation
Group value.
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