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15  

II  

Designated  

16/09/1991  

16/09/1991  

Roy Brown's Coaches  

15 High Street  

Powys  

Builth  

 

 

304167  

251031  

 

 

Commercial  

 

Seventeenth Century. Built in 1690's following the Great Fire of 20 December 1691 and formerly known as the Red House from its once exposed red brick construction. Of historic interest as sole remaining house built from fund raised after fire.  

Originally single house, two storeys with basement at rear where ground drops towards river. Five windows wide and originally two rooms deep, and had central doorway into passage. Now divided between public house and shop. Slate roof with brick chimneys, that to W yellow brick, that to E (to rear of ridge) in smaller flatter red bricks (probably original) and raised with yellow bricks. Brick walls (known to be English Bond) now rendered. Street facade has on first floor, five horned sash windows each with 4 large panes. On ground floor, late C19/early C20 style shop and public house fronts, and one sash window. Dormers in roof probably early twentieth century additions. At rear, original building obscured by later ranges, chiefly late nineteenth and twentieth century.