Powys Probation Service Area Office

1, 2 & 3 The Cross (Farmers Union 0f Wales, Barclays Bank, Davey Welsh Crafts and Powys Probation Service Area Office), The Cross, Newtown

3 storey, Ruabon red brick with buff terracotta dressings on red terracotta plinth. Steep red tile roofs, plain brick chimneys. Low leaded parapet with corniced entablature. Square clock tower over curved corner. Two stage octagonal cupola, concave sides, slit-like round arched windows. Ribbed lead dome. Pediments over clock faces. Pilasters to corners. Corniced band. Paired pilasters sweep out to form scrolls over buttresses. Paired round arched sash windows to 2nd floor; rusticated arches; pilasters in terracotta, small panes to upper sash. Sill band. Flanking brick pilasters descend from tower through sill band to ornate brackets. Further paired windows beyond. Similar taller windows to 1st floor flanked by ornate strapwork dedication plaques. Broad tripartite windows beyond. Sill band over plain entablature on convex bracket. Corner doorway. Rusticated round arch, nookshaft, mask to keystone; pilasters, ornate spandrels with putti. Blind fanlight, 6 panel double doors. Doorway flanked by 2 light mullioned windows with oval oculi over surmounted by swan necked pediments. Rusticated flat arches to cross windows beyond. Similar central bays to High Street and Severn Street. Ornate Dutch gables, pilasters, urns. Renaissance motifs to round arch. Centre pilasters decend to brackets at sill band. Paired sash windows to centre flanked by small windows, with ornate aprons. Similar to 1st floor with round arches. Sill band. Modern plate glass window to High Street ground floor. Blocked "Dutch" doorcase in that to Severn Street, sash windows to right. Similar gable end to Parker's Lane. Plain raking gable parapets to rear on Severn Street. Outer bays of High and Severn Street elevations have round arched sash windows to 2nd floor, cross windows to 1st floor. Modern shopfront to High Street. Paired round arched 1st floor windows on bracket to corner with Parker's Lane ornate strapwork bracket with mask over; rusticated, round arched corner doorway with medallions to spandrels.

Plain elevations to Parker's Lane. Further 2 storey, 3 window block to rear linked by broad doorway with balusters over. Raking gable parapets.