Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
9027
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
30/09/1985
Date of Amendment
30/09/1985
Name of Property
Youth Hostel Association and Heritage Centre (former Primary School)
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Knighton
Town
Locality
Easting
328489
Northing
272492
Street Side
Location
In its own railed yard set back from and below street level at the North end of the town with recreation ground behind.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
Built in 1865 as Knighton National School (for about 360 children) on land donated by Green Price family. Later additions in 1911 by William Cadwallader.
Exterior
Mid-Victorian Gothic symmetrical single-storey and attic composition with outer cross-gables and paired gables to centre, lateral extensions to outer ends. Rubble walls with freestone dressings, rusticated quoins; slate roofs with cresting, rubble and brick chimney stacks. Outer gables with parapets and attics lit by small rectangular lights. Grouped 4-light cusped windows under banded relieving arches to outer windows.
Centre set back slightly with 2 steep-pitched gables, ornamental bargeboards with scissor braces and 2-light bar traceried windows. Pitched roof rubble porch to right with Berkeley arch to entrance. 2 later additions forward to the street with square headed windows. Gothic windows to rear of side elevations.
Interior
Reason for designation
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