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Latitude: 52.3458 / 52°20'44"N
Longitude: -3.0512 / 3°3'4"W
OS Eastings: 328489
OS Northings: 272492
OS Grid: SO284724
Mapcode National: GBR B4.T7H1
Mapcode Global: VH76P.29BJ
Plus Code: 9C4R8WWX+8G
Entry Name: Youth Hostel Association and Heritage Centre (former Primary School)
Listing Date: 30 September 1985
Last Amended: 30 September 1985
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 9027
Building Class: Commercial
Also known as: Knighton Youth Hostel
ID on this website: 300009027
Location: In its own railed yard set back from and below street level at the North end of the town with recreation ground behind.
County: Powys
Community: Knighton (Tref-y-clawdd)
Community: Knighton
Built-Up Area: Knighton
Traditional County: Radnorshire
Tagged with: School building Youth hostel
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.
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.
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