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Latitude: 52.6595 / 52°39'34"N
Longitude: -3.1482 / 3°8'53"W
OS Eastings: 322436
OS Northings: 307485
OS Grid: SJ224074
Mapcode National: GBR B0.5FLB
Mapcode Global: WH79P.MD2Z
Plus Code: 9C4RMV52+RP
Entry Name: Old Cockpit
Listing Date: 20 October 1966
Last Amended: 29 February 1996
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 7822
Building Class: Recreational
ID on this website: 300007822
Location: Set back from New Street to the rear of the National Westminster Bank on Broad Street.
County: Powys
Community: Welshpool (Y Trallwng)
Community: Welshpool
Built-Up Area: Welshpool
Traditional County: Montgomeryshire
Tagged with: Architectural structure
The cock-pit was probably built in the mid C18, possibly as part of the Castle Inn which apparently occupied the frontage site to Broad Street from 1727. It remained in use until cock-fighting was made illegal in 1849. It was restored in 1978, and the pit itself reconstructed at that time.
Brick, with graded slate roof. Octagonal, 2-storeyed. Single ring cambered heads to doorway and windows, which are mainly at first floor level, lighting the pit itself. 2-paned windows, with small panes (boarded to ground floor); one opening beneath the eaves and above the entrance has early leaded lights.
Cobbled floor to lower storey, and 2 parallel beams supported on rough chamfered posts carry the first floor. This has reconstruction of the original boarded enclosure - the pit. Roof supported on a central post, the king-post truss braced to the 8 main rafters. A date (1821) is scratched into the tie beam.
A highly unusual survival of a rare building type - the only example in Wales to survive on its original site.
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