Islwyn Watkins Antiques including premises of W.Machin, Butcher, West Street is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 September 1985. Commercial. 2 related planning applications.

Islwyn Watkins Antiques including premises of W.Machin, Butcher, West Street

WRENN ID
seventh-pediment-owl
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
Commercial
Address
Islwyn Watkins Antiques including premises of W.Machin, Butcher, West Street, 1 High Street, Knighton, LD7 1AT
OS grid reference
SO 285 723
Coordinates
52.34453, -3.05006
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Islwyn Watkins Antiques, which includes the premises of W. Machin, Butcher, is a three-storey building with an attic and a roughcast front featuring freestone quoins. The slate roof has wide boxed eaves and a gable at the center, which is the left of three on the original front of Chandos House. The building has plain bargeboards, a pendant, and a finial. It features four-pane sash windows with deep plain reveals and heavy lintels. The shopfront has four lights and a half-glazed door beneath a projecting moulded cornice. To the right, there is a four-panelled door with a fanlight, which is in the position of the original pedimented doorpiece.

The side elevation facing West Street is also roughcast and has three storeys and a basement, reconstructed in 1932. It has a slate roof that is hipped towards the front and has a mansard at the rear, with boxed eaves on the former and coved eaves on the latter. The front part has two sash windows (only one on the second floor) and three dormers at the rear. There are three sash windows and a casement bay window below, along with a shop front for the butcher on the ground floor.

The rear of the building is roughcast with a brick stack, sash windows, and a lean-to. Inside, some fine 18th-century panelling with raised fields remains, particularly in the antique shop.

Local climate

Islwyn Watkins Antiques including premises of W.Machin, Butcher, West Street receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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.

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