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Church Street, WELSHPOOL, SY21 7DL

Grade II listed building (16655) 9 Church Street, Welshpool. Built on the site of a malt-house as the depot for the Welshpool foundry of J.M.Morris, to designs by Mr Hurst, the Borough Surveyor, c1890. Exterior: Brick with stone dressings and slate roof. 3 storeys, 5-bay range, articulated by a strong cornice band over the second storey, and by pilasters between the bays. Pedimented central bay houses entrance: paired doors in round-headed archway with terracotta keyblock. Similarly detailed openings to floor-length windows in right-hand bays - the left hand bays altered by the insertion of a shop front. Paired windows in each bay to first floor are 2-pane sashes with stone sills, lintels and frieze band. Segmentally arched heads with stone springers and keystones to 2-pane sashes paired in each bay above the principal cornice band. Lettered frieze below the eaves records 'J & M Morris Agricultural Implement Depot'. Similar detail in 3-bay return elevation, with central doorway.

The new one-way system is still under construction and is causing long delays.

Hard to believe that the Welshpool & Llanfair Railway steam-hauled trains ran between the buildings here until 1956 when the line was closed. When the railway re-opened as a tourist line, it was not possible for this part of the route to be re-established but there are proposals to operate over a different route into Welshpool.

Some maps show this as the track of the old railway line which ran down through to the cattle market. It was part of the Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway which has now been truncated to Raven Square and is preserved. However the railway actually ran down a passage beyond the right side of the photo and now some buildings have been demolished for a new relief road

The building now combines a station with tourist shops. This works very well.

Two streets at crossroads in the centre of Welshpool. Broad Street is on the left. Viewed from the corner of Berriw Street and Severn Street.

Showing the new steam railway mural. The Llanfair and Welshpool railway used to cross Church Street about here on its way to the main line railway station.

The Llanfair and Welshpool railway used to cross Church Street about here on its way to the main line railway station. See the mural in context here http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3734809.

Grade II Listed building that has a date stone in the chimney for 1692 by Gilbert and Ann Jones. It was extensively remodelled around 1830 but had been the Coach and Horses Inn from 1765 reportedly until 1906 but I can't find it in 1895 and 1901 directories. In 1906 it became an estate agents' office and was later used by the Royal Oak Hotel. Recently Halls Estate Agents, it is currently (2022) up for sale or rent described as Old Coach Chambers, a total of 1,572 sq ft of office space. However the second floor is an occupied 2 bedroom flat. It looks like Church Street was previously Bull Street. A search of my directories for the Coach & Horses produced; 1835 Jane Griffiths, Bull Street; 1844 Edward Jones, Bull Street; 1859-1868 George Adolphus Waidson.