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
9350
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
04/08/1989
Date of Amendment
31/07/1995
Name of Property
Old Police Station and Magistrates Court
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Rhayader
Town
Locality
Easting
296967
Northing
267905
Street Side
S
Location
To SW of the town centre. On a levelled site above the road opposite junction with Church Street.
Description
Broad Class
Civil
Period
History
Circa 1870. Style of Pritchard and Seddon, but possibly by S W Williams of Rhayader, County Surveyor. Comprises Tudorbethan Police Station (to L), and Gothic magistrates court to right: H-plan with porches to both angles.
Exterior
Mainly single-storey, but attic to police station. Rubble with freestone dressings, paler to magistrates court, which has deep red brick voussoir arches. Below the sill band at angles are unusual ramped buttresses. Slate roofs with cresting, and dog-tooth eaves band to R; gabled cross range to L, and gablet roof to taller court at R with iron finials and conical ventilator. The police station has twinned horned sash windows to both floors with relieving arches and chamfered jambs. Distinctive porch inscribed 'Police Station' with R side stepped inwards above the impost to a Caernarfon Arch derived entrance on which the shoulders are roll-moulded. Studded, pointed arch door. 3-grouped windows to centre with Caernarfon arched heads and latticework bars over the glazing. Gabled porch to the magistrates court; freestone dog-toothed pointed arched over flatter brick arch; label and dog-toothed ornament returned around the L side. Studded pointed arch doors. Three windows to R grouped under continuous label; red brick pointed arches over horned 12-pane sashes with stop-chamfered jambs. Lattice work ventilation panel to the gablet. 3 similar but not grouped, windows to the R side and slate hanging to rear.
Rubble forecourt wall with roll-moulded band.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as well-preserved example of building type.
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