Railway Station, Newtown and Llanllwchaiarn (Y Drenewydd a Llanllwchaearn), Powys

Coordinates

Latitude: 52.5123 / 52°30'44"N

Longitude: -3.3116 / 3°18'41"W

OS Eastings: 311087

OS Northings: 291299

OS Grid: SO110912

Mapcode National: GBR 9S.GWWC

Mapcode Global: VH689.K35W

Plus Code: 9C4RGM6Q+W9

Entry Name: Railway Station

Listing Date: 9 May 1988

Last Amended: 9 May 1988

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 8112

Building Class: Transport

Also known as: Newtown Station
NWT

ID on this website: 300008112

Location: On the lane leading off Kerry Road between Agriculture House and the Royal Welsh Warehouse.

County: Powys

Community: Newtown and Llanllwchaiarn (Y Drenewydd a Llanllwchaearn)

Community: Newtown and Llanllwchaiarn

Built-Up Area: Newtown

Traditional County: Montgomeryshire

Tagged with: Railway station

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History

Built c1868 for the Cambrian Railway at a cost of £1,200 following complaints about the old station.

Exterior

Gothic, symmetrical entrance front with advanced gabled bays to ends, and porch to centre. Flemish bond brick on brick plinth. Steeply pitched slate roofs, crested ridge tiles. Bargeboards to advanced bays; pierced quatrafoils; finials and collared pendants to right. Brick stacks. Broad blue brick bands at window head and sill level, rising to pointed arches on advanced bays and porch. Stone window dressings, rusticated architraves. Foliate capitals to centre mullions on 2 light window. 1 light to outer bays and sides of advanced bays. Victorian sashes. Advanced porch to centre. Blue brick arch on detached columns, foliate capitals, large stone bases. Broad double doorway, stone lintel. "Gothic" panel doors and fanlight. Stone steps; later stone capped splayed side walls with foliated capitals.

Interesting platform seats with cast iron arborial bench ends.

Interior

Good interior to ticket office, original fittings. T & G panelling. Iron tension bars to trusses with cusped spandels.

Reasons for Listing

Group value.

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Other nearby listed buildings

II Royal Welsh Warehouse
Prominently sited on the street line curving round towards the Railway Station from Kerry Road.
II Royal Welsh Warehouse
Prominently sited on the street line curving round towards the Railway Station from Kerry Road.
II Agriculture House
Prominently sited opposite the Royal Welsh Warehouse on the junction of Kerry Road with the lane leading to the Railway Station.
II Parish Church of St David including Wall Fronting New Road
In a spacious churchyard in a prominent position facing New Church Street.
II Queen's Head PH
At the junction of Kerry Road with Pool Road.
II* Newtown Baptist Church including perimeter railings
Prominently sited at the corner of New Church Street with New Road.
II Former Servants Wing at the Rectory
Below the junction of the Pool Road link with Kerry Road.
II Croesawdy
On the S side of New Road, near the Parish Church of St David and the junction with New Church Street, on the corner with Ffordd Croesawdy.

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Railway Station

A Grade II Listed Building in Newtown and Llanllwchaiarn (Y Drenewydd a Llanllwchaearn), Powys