Joiners Court to rear of

Joiners Court, located at the rear of 11 and 12 Commercial Street in Penygloddfa, Newtown, is a pair of three-storey former back-to-back houses. They are constructed from painted English garden wall bond brick and feature a gently pitched slate roof with a dentilled eaves cornice and brick end stacks. The second floor has shallow four-pane late 19th-century sash windows, while the first and ground floors have 19th-century four-pane sashes. The windows have cambered brick voussoirs, plain reveals, and stone sills. There are blocked windows in the center at both the first and second floors above a tunnel passage. The rear of No 11 has good small-paned iron casements, and the doorways have plain doorcases with gabled hoods on brackets and original doors. There is a round-arched tunnel passage entry in the center.

The rear courtyard, formerly known as Joiner's Court, features later sunk drains and a range of three two-storey cottages, also built from painted English garden wall bond brick. These cottages have slate roofs with dentil eaves cornices and truncated brick stacks on the right. The first floor has a decayed two-light small-paned iron casement below the eaves, with a top left opening light. The ground floor has cross windows with an iron opening light. The doorways are offset to the right, except for the right end cottage, where the doorway was originally on the left but is now blocked. The cottages have cambered header arches, shallow reveals, and no sills, with heavy frames and repaired plank doors. This site is a good rare example of smaller houses found within the courts.