The Automobile Palace is a Grade II* listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 September 1985. Commercial.
The Automobile Palace
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-copper-rook
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 30 September 1985
- Type
- Commercial
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
2-storey, 9-bay Art-Deco curving front with possibly the earliest use of faience facing in Wales. Flat roof, lions sedant (22 to whole building) with shields to plain parapet with egg and dart moulded cornice (removed to left bays). Paired rusticated pilasters between bays. Twin glazed shop fronts to first floor with arched heads, overall cill band with egg and dart moulding, letter fascia mostly obscured by modern sign. Partly altered ground floor but retaining original doors to showroom with sinuous handrails. 9-bay elevation in same style set into the slope of Princes Avenue with pedimented entrance to "No 2 Garage" at 1st floor level. Original lettering to pediments and ground floor fascia. 2-bay return elevation to Western Promenade.
Art Nouveau ironwork railings to Princes Street side. Said to retain some of the earliest petrol tanks in Wales below forecourt with pumps.
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