No 1 Park Houses

Nos.1 & 2 Park Houses N elevation to Dairy Square: Brick with slate roof, and some rubble in basement storey. Early doorway to left, up steps with squared balustrade: paired 6-panelled doors in bolection moulded architrave with stone quoins, flanked by windows with steeply cambered brick heads. Additional doorway to the right is inserted, and cuts the steeply arched head of an earlier window. The two other windows on the ground floor are both insertions (of early date); a series of steeply arched window heads remains visible. At first floor level there is also a series of blocked windows, their steeply arched heads partially cut by the present eaves line. Existing windows are clearly secondary. All existing windows are iron, with small panes and central opening lights: these may have been inserted when the building was extended to the left, since the fenestration in these 2 left-hand bays is of similar type. S elevation to garden: 2 storeys over full-basement, which is partly rubble. The elevation is divided by the wall which forms the E boundary of the Formal Garden: in the left hand section, early fenestration is visible at basement level, similar in style to the early blocked windows in the N elevation: a series of 5 steeply arched windows, with a further window alongside the wall to the right (the section beyond the wall was not inspected); inserted doorway to left, and paired secondary windows to the right. On the upper storeys, the fenestration is aligned, as a closely spaced series of 5 windows to the left, all with plastered plain architraves; of the wider-spaced windows to the right, one has a steeply arched head, and may be early; the others have single ring cambered heads and are probably secondary. Most of the windows are cast-iron with small panes and central opening vents, but there is one mullioned and transomed leaded light, perhaps a survival from an early phase. In the section to the right of the wall, the windows have wood mullions and transoms, and larger panes.

Towards the centre of the earliest (W) range at first floor level, one room forms 3 bays of conventional early C19 fire-proof construction, with brick-arches between cast- iron beams carried on cast-iron columns.

The largely C17-C18 building forms a handsome element in the gardens at Powis and is of special interest as an early estate building, modified and adapted for particular uses.