Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
7224
Building Number
54
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
25/09/1986
Date of Amendment
25/09/1986
Name of Property
Corn Exchange PH
Address
54 High Street
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Crickhowell
Town
Locality
Easting
321780
Northing
218406
Street Side
Location
On the corner with Beaufort Street and set back from the main part of the Corn Exchange Inn to the right.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
Late C18/early C19 2-storey roughcast front with end pilaster strip to structure of C17 origins.
Exterior
Steep slate roof, boxed eaves and roughcast chimney stack to left (probably originally with another to right, now roofed over). Two 16-pane sash windows to 1st floor with thick glazing bars and flush frames, modern window in Corn Exchange part to right. Later corrugated lean-to cross-windowed shop front with PH entrance to right and splayed shop entrance to left.
Roughcast gable end wall to Beaufort Street formerly with 'Round House' extension as shown in view of 1750, now with exposed chimney breast corbelled at top of ground floor. Two small-pane sash windows with broad architraves, one to attic.
Floriana adjoins to left and occupies the 1st floor and attic of the property over the shop. Interior retains chamfered beams to main room and tenoned purlins to roof structure.
The major part of the Corn Exchange Inn is no longer of special interest.
Interior
Reason for designation
Group value.
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