Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
7196
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
25/09/1986
Date of Amendment
25/09/1986
Name of Property
Queens Coffee Tavern (Percy Davies Institution)
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Crickhowell
Town
Locality
Easting
321810
Northing
218438
Street Side
Location
In "The Square" at the top of the street on the corner with Standard Street; adjoining No 1 to left.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
Dated 1884. Built by Percy Davies of Porthmawr and bequeathed by his wife, Caroline Wilhelmine, as a Trust for the "Benefit of the Town" and the "General Welfare of the inhabitants of Crickhowell". The Trustees are required to ensure that it remains a coffee house; it formerly also housed the Public Library.
Exterior
Tall Victorian 3-storey, 1-window painted brick front with some Gothic details; open-pedimented gable end to the street flanked by advanced and panelled end pilaster strips; slate roof. Paired semicircular headed sash windows with keystones and bracketed cill to 2nd floor; splayed oriel to 1st floor with sash glazing and dated corbel above ground floor cornice with gablets to ends, recessed half-glazed door and memorial tablet below.
Roughcast 6-window Standard Street frontage with cross gable to central bay over 6-panel door; sash windows with glazing bars and cambered heads.
Interior
Interior retains Gothic furnishings to ground floor.
Reason for designation
Group value.
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