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Mount Close, WELSHPOOL, SY21 7PD

View from Mount Street, across Mount Close.

Grade II Listed house, now clearly a shop and flat. The listing informs us that it was probably 17th century and originally a small 2-unit house with storeyed central porch. The ground floor of the porch was removed and the upper storey then carried on cast-iron columns. A lean-to extension was added to one side of it to extend the shop frontage, probably in the mid-late 19th century. Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust undertook a recording project in December 2003 as part of renovation works and describe it as probably 16th century and one of the best preserved historic buildings in Welshpool. During the 17th-century a timber-framed rear wing was added at right-angles to the street front, with a lateral stone chimney along the west wall. The timber-framed porch is also likely to be 17th-century in date, although it may post-date the rear wing.

Looking down Mount Street, towards High Street.

Andrew's Fish Bar, Welshpool.

Both premises have a separate Grade II Listing but both use the same text. The site has been occupied from early in the 17th century at least and at one time a poors' tenement known as Chelsea Barracks here. The present building has an institutional character but little is known about it. Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust describe it as a post medieval barracks. The National Monuments Record of Wales online database describes it as 18th century. My 1895 directory lists them as two houses. Currently (2022) no.17 carries a sign as the offices of Azets accountants and had previously been Baldwins Accountants.