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
8965
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
30/09/1985
Date of Amendment
Name of Property
Norton Arms Hotel
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Knighton
Town
Locality
Easting
328662
Northing
272244
Street Side
Location
Stone-built square block at the corner of Brookside and Broad Street.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
Built by Sir Richard Green Price and opened in 1867.
Exterior
3-storey and basement rubble front with freestone dressings. 3-storey splayed bays to left and right, iron-railed balconies to first floor supported on curved iron brackets. Hipped slate roof, very wide bracket eaves with saw-tooth moulding. 3 rubble chimney stacks. Three 3-light grouped sash windows with wide glazing. Projecting central semi-octagonal porch with parapet and small semi-circular pediment and shield. 4-pane lights to sides and semi-circular arched entrance to centre with keystone and panelled pilasters, recessed 6 panel door with fanlight and panelled reveals.
7-bay gabled and half-timbered building of 1894 to right is not of special interest.
Interior
Interior retains 2-level galleries around main openwell stair with cusped braces and stop chamfered beams.
Reason for designation
Cadw : Full Report for Listed Buildings [ Records 1 of 1 ]
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