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
87488
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
25/10/1951  
Date of Amendment
22/03/1993  
Name of Property
'Corner House' Market Street  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Powys  
Community
Llanfyllin  
Town
Llanfyllin  
Locality
 
Easting
314175  
Northing
319480  
Street Side
 
Location
On prominent site on W corner of High Street and Market Street  

Description


Broad Class
Commercial  
Period
 

History
 

Exterior
On prominent site on W corner of High street and Market Street. C18 and C19 house, became 'Corner House' temperence hotel in later C19. Three storeys, stucco with hipped slate roof, four bays to Market Street, two to High Street. Heavy Italianate bracketed cornice. Upper floor windows nine-pane hornless sashes with shallow moulded architraves, stone sills. First floor windows have moulded architraves with cornices, twelve-pane hornless sash glazing. On ground floor, corner has late C19 shopfront. Double-leaf door (part-glazed) with rectangular overlight, single shopwindow to R (High Street), double shopwindow to L (Market Street), panelled stallrisers; composition articulated by pilasters supporting volutes and gabled fascia tabernacles between which are fascia boards with dentil cornice over. To L of shopfront in Market Street is entrance doorway with bracketed hood. To L of doorway, tripartite window with central twelve pane sash flanked by narrow sashes, deep cornice over. Group value. References: R Kretchmer, Llanfyllin, A Pictorial History, 1992, p 66.A  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
 

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