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Latitude: 52.9101 / 52°54'36"N
Longitude: -3.5988 / 3°35'55"W
OS Eastings: 292579
OS Northings: 335938
OS Grid: SH925359
Mapcode National: GBR 6D.NN9H
Mapcode Global: WH675.P3HW
Plus Code: 9C4RWC62+2F
Entry Name: Barclays Bank
Listing Date: 19 October 1951
Last Amended: 13 December 2001
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 4911
Building Class: Commercial
ID on this website: 300004911
Late C18 or early C19 house and shop with mid C19 stucco facade. This was the home of Thomas Charles, one of the founders of the British and Foreign Bible Society in 1804. Charles (1755-1814) was also an education pioneer and an early champion of the Welsh Sunday Schools. He has two statues in the town. Since 1920 the building has been a bank.
Three-storey house and commercial premises of rubble with later stucco facade; slate roof and large flanking rubble chimneys. Three-bay elevation with modern bank openings to ground floor. The first and second floor windows have Victorian 6-pane sashes with projecting stucco keyblocks and lintels. The 2nd storey windows additionally have moulded stucco architraves; moulded stringcourse between the floors, and a moulded cornice and parapet to the roofline.
The interior was not inspected at the time of survey.
Listed as a late Georgian former house and shop retaining fine mid C19 stucco facade, and for its special historic interest as the home of Thomas Charles, one of the founders of the British and Foreign Bible Society and pioneer of the Welsh Sunday Schools.
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