Queens Coffee Tavern (Percy Davies Institution), Crickhowell, Powys

Coordinates

Latitude: 51.859 / 51°51'32"N

Longitude: -3.1368 / 3°8'12"W

OS Eastings: 321810

OS Northings: 218438

OS Grid: SO218184

Mapcode National: GBR F0.T4JT

Mapcode Global: VH6CH.LJ2Q

Plus Code: 9C3RVV57+J7

Entry Name: Queens Coffee Tavern (Percy Davies Institution)

Listing Date: 25 September 1986

Last Amended: 25 September 1986

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 7196

Building Class: Commercial

ID on this website: 300007196

Location: In "The Square" at the top of the street on the corner with Standard Street; adjoining No 1 to left.

County: Powys

Community: Crickhowell (Crughywel)

Community: Crickhowell

Built-Up Area: Crickhowell

Traditional County: Brecknockshire

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History

Dated 1884. Built by Percy Davies of Porthmawr and bequeathed by his wife, Caroline Wilhelmine, as a Trust for the "Benefit of the Town" and the "General Welfare of the inhabitants of Crickhowell". The Trustees are required to ensure that it remains a coffee house; it formerly also housed the Public Library.

Exterior

Tall Victorian 3-storey, 1-window painted brick front with some Gothic details; open-pedimented gable end to the street flanked by advanced and panelled end pilaster strips; slate roof. Paired semicircular headed sash windows with keystones and bracketed cill to 2nd floor; splayed oriel to 1st floor with sash glazing and dated corbel above ground floor cornice with gablets to ends, recessed half-glazed door and memorial tablet below.

Roughcast 6-window Standard Street frontage with cross gable to central bay over 6-panel door; sash windows with glazing bars and cambered heads.

Interior

Interior retains Gothic furnishings to ground floor.

Reasons for Listing

Group value.

External Links

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Queens Coffee Tavern (Percy Davies Institution)

A Grade II Listed Building in Crickhowell, Powys