Bookshop is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 September 1985. Demolished building.
Bookshop
- WRENN ID
- hidden-entrance-vetch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 30 September 1985
- Type
- Demolished building
- Address
- Bookshop, 2 Broad Street, Knighton
- OS grid reference
- SO 285 722
- Coordinates
- 52.3441, -3.04964
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
This building is a Victorian Romanesque bookshop, featuring a three-storey design constructed from patterned brick and set into the slope of the street. It has a slate roof with a gable parapet that includes a finial and a brick stack. The façade showcases light banded polychrome decoration around the window arches, dark brick hoodmouldings, and yellow brick quoins. On the second floor, there are two semi-circular-headed sash windows with glazing bars flanking a higher blind arch. Below, a saw-toothed cornice adds detail. The first floor features three semi-circular-headed windows adorned with pilasters, nook shafts, and flat foliage detail, along with a cill band. The shop front is flush and includes a dentilled cornice at the entablature, with triple semi-circular-headed lights and a recessed entrance on the left side.
Local climate
Bookshop receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings
Nearby listed buildings
- Halifax Building Society & Radnor District Council Offices
- George and Dragon P.H.
- Richard Davis-Butcher's Shop
- Elizabeth's Fashions & Solitaire
- Florist & C.B.Print
- Molly's Cottage
- Telephone Call-box on island site, beside clock tower
- S.T. & H.M. Hyton, Gents Outfitters
- Stars News Shop Ltd
- S.T. & H.M. Huyton, Gents Outfitters