Town Hall, Talgarth, Powys

Coordinates

Latitude: 51.9957 / 51°59'44"N

Longitude: -3.232 / 3°13'55"W

OS Eastings: 315506

OS Northings: 233746

OS Grid: SO155337

Mapcode National: GBR YW.JJXS

Mapcode Global: VH6BV.X3QF

Plus Code: 9C3RXQW9+75

Entry Name: Town Hall

Listing Date: 24 September 1985

Last Amended: 14 August 1995

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 7480

Building Class: Civil

ID on this website: 300007480

Location: Located on a prominent site in the centre of Talgarth.

County: Powys

Community: Talgarth

Built-Up Area: Talgarth

Traditional County: Brecknockshire

Tagged with: City hall Seat of local government

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History

Built 1877-8 as an Assembly Room with a produce market under, by T Lawrence Lewis, architect. Clock tower added 1887 for Queen Victoria's jubilee, and wing at right angles on the E side, modernised and altered 1994.

Exterior

Rubble stone with slate roof. Ground floor now has an opening to the square, functioning as a bus shelter, with public conveniences within. Two-storey rubble gable end has, above the shelter, three windows with fixed metal 20-pane glazing, the centre pivot hung, with dressed quoins, the window opening with alternating black and yellow brick voussoirs. Plain bargeboards. Roof quarter hipped. Set behind a quarter hipped roof, a square clock turret with an open stage and ogee lead-clad roof finishing with a finial. The side elevation is of 2 storeys, 5 window bays of similar windows. On the E side, an external stair from The Bank provides access to the 1994 upper floor wing, the C18 railings from Tregunter House now replaced. This wing has a glazed link to a C20 rendered rear service block, also with a slated roof.

Interior

Hall is of 5 bays, divided by hammer-beam trusses carried on stone corbels, with tension bars. Single tier of purlins. Stage in S end bay. Square opening in gable end blocked when belltower added.

Reasons for Listing

Listed as the most important visual element on The Square, and of group value with Tower House shop and Talgarth Bridge.

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Other nearby listed buildings

II Talgarth Mill
Located on the right bank of the river Enig, about 50m above Talgarth Bridge, with access at the side of the Town Hall.
II Telephone Call-box on The Square
On E side of The Square in the centre of the town; to N of Town Hall.
II* Tower House including attached shop
Located at the corner of the Square, at the side of the A479, adjoining the bridge over the River Enig.
II Talgarth Bridge
Located at the centre of the town, spanning the River Enig, and adjoining the Tower House.
II The Bridge End Inn
Located immediately to the SW of the River Enig bridge, on the corner of Regent Street.
II Bridge House
Located along the left (W) bank of the River Enig, immediately N of Talgarth Bridge.
II Glanant
Located along the left (W) bank of the River Enig, immediately N of Talgarth Bridge.
II Old Post Office
On the south side of the junction of High Street and Bell Street.

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Town Hall

A Grade II Listed Building in Talgarth, Powys