Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
8985
Building Number
18
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
30/09/1985
Date of Amendment
30/09/1985
Name of Property
Green Price Almhouses
Address
18 Church Street
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Knighton
Town
Locality
Easting
328668
Northing
272455
Street Side
Location
To south-west of St Edward's Church at end of Church Street, facing south-east down Church Road.
Description
Broad Class
Health and Welfare
Period
History
Founded in 1881 by Sir Richard Green Price of Norton, MP for Radnorshire 1880-85, to replace those demolished besides No 3 Wylcwm Street.
Exterior
Arts and Crafts (influence of Norman Shaw), 2-storey group of 4 Almshouses with higher cross ranges to left and right. Rubble ground floor, half-timbered first floor with concave-sided diamonds, tiled roofs with cresting, 2 stellar brick chimney stacks. Broad gables with moulded bargeboards, wide boarded eaves, jettied treatment over paired splayed oriels with moulded glazing bars and curved brackets to 1st floor. Two 6-pane casement windows to ground-floor left and right. Central set-back gables with moulded bargeboards and cusped braces, 4-light window.
Tiled lean-to roof to centre forming porch to Nos 16 and 17. Nos 15 and 18 are entered under separate tiled hooded porches supported on curved brackets. Rubble side elevations with half-timbered gable, half-hipped roofs to rear of gables.
Garden entered by lych-gate with open timberwork pitched roof and 2 wooden gates. Enclosed by rubble boundary wall with gate piers; plaque set into outer face of wall to right of gate reads:- "Erected in memory of Richard Dansey and Clara Ann Green Price by Devoted Children 1930".
Interior
Reason for designation
Group value.
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