Clive Place

Clive Place is a house built around 1820 as part of a small development by the Powis Estate. It has served various purposes, including being part of Welshpool Girls Grammar School, a Judges Lodging, and later council offices.

The exterior features brick construction with a slate roof that overhangs on plain eaves, and axial stacks. The building is two storeys high with an attic and has a three-window range, a central entrance, and two rear wings. The entrance includes a three-panelled door with sidelights, framed by an architrave with a fluted frieze and a cornice that steps forward to form a hood. The windows are 12-pane sashes with painted flat arched heads and keystones. A plain brick string course runs above the first floor, and the attic is lit from the gable apexes. The long rear wing on the right has two 9-pane sash windows with cambered brick heads and rusticated keystones, as well as a large canted bay window. Similar sash windows with rusticated keystones are found in the rear gable return. There is a two-storeyed rear porch with a pyramidal roof located at the angle of the two wings; the shorter wing to the west has 12-pane sash windows with flat arched brick heads. A brick wall of single storey height connects the house to No 3 on the left and includes an inserted side entrance.

Inside, the central entrance leads to a stair hall with principal rooms on either side and in the east wing. The staircase rises the full height of the house, cantilevered around a central well, featuring plain spindles, turned newels, and a swept rail. A simpler back staircase rises from the rear hallway, which has a coloured tiled floor. Much of the original internal joinery remains, along with moulded plaster cornices in the principal rooms.

Clive Place is a fine example of an early 19th-century house that retains much of its character both internally and externally, and it is part of a distinctive group of similar houses at Nos 1-3 Clive Place.