History

Dated l911; built by David Davies of Llandinam who bought two cottages on the site in l909. Said to have been designed by F H Shayler, architect of Shrewsbury. Serves as a civic building including Tourist Office.

Exterior

L-plan black and white Tudor revival; rubble to ground floor, half-rendered above. Slate roof and rubble chimney stacks. 3-bay front with broad bracketed gable to left - pendant, finial and dentil band to bargeboards. 2-storey porch advanced to centre with similar gable treatment. Overhanging eaves and garlanded rainwater head. Diamond leaded glazing with mullions and transoms to left; cross frame oriel window with pediment over the segmental arched entrance; boarded and studded door.
Similar construction to left hand side dominated by 3-storey tower midway along; this has swept pyramidal roof with tall weathervane. Gable immediately to right and a double jettied gable to left, carried to left on a low cylindrical column. Pointed arch doorway to tower.
At the far end is a tall pointed arch mirroring that on the front between the Institute and the Parliament House. Stepped outhouse to left with imitation crenellated parapet.

Interior

Internally the dog-leg staircase has a stone handrail partly carved. Some half-timbered walls. Stone fireplace with half round columns to ground floor.

Reasons for Listing

Group value with neighbouring listed items.

External Links

• Cadwr Listing
• Wikidata Q29487325

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Recommended Books

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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey