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
9057
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
30/09/1985
Date of Amendment
30/09/1985
Name of Property
Albert Hall
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Llandrindod Wells
Town
Locality
Easting
305636
Northing
261101
Street Side
Location
Situated on a downhill slope close to the centre of the town; beside the presbyterian chapel.
Description
Broad Class
Recreational
Period
History
Dated 1896, refitted 1922 for commercial entertainment.
Exterior
2-storey and basement, 5-window English Renaissance brick front with Art Nouveau entrance. Hipped slate roof. Advanced central pedimented bay with dentilled cornice on pilasters with acanthus capitals. Stringcoures hoodmoulds to 1st floor; paired sash windows under semicircular fanlights. Paired sashes under stone lintels to ground floor left and right and Venetian window arrangement to centre entrance up steps. Panels to base of doors and curved radiating glazing bars above. Lean-to hood with brackets over. Minor alterations by W Beddoe Rees who rebuilt the basement as a schoolroom for the Presbyterian Chapel adjoining.
Interior
Interior retains raked auditorium and gallery with curved front. Rectangular proscenium arch and ornamental detail to boxes.
Reason for designation
Included for group value.
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