Powys Probation Service Area Office

The Powys Probation Service Area Office is part of a larger building on The Cross in Newtown, dating from the early 20th century and constructed of Ruabon red brick with buff terracotta dressings on a red terracotta plinth. It has steep red tile roofs, plain brick chimneys, and a low leaded parapet with a corniced entablature. A prominent square clock tower rises over the curved corner, featuring a two-stage octagonal cupola with concave sides, slit-like round arched windows, a ribbed lead dome, and pediments over the clock faces. Pilasters decorate the corners and a corniced band runs along the building. Paired pilasters sweep outwards to form scrolls over buttresses.

The second floor has paired round arched sash windows with rusticated arches and pilasters in terracotta, with small panes in the upper sash. A sill band is present, and flanking brick pilasters descend from the tower through the sill band to ornate brackets, with further paired windows beyond. The first floor has similar taller windows flanked by ornate strapwork dedication plaques and broad tripartite windows. A sill band sits over a plain entablature on convex brackets. A corner doorway features a rusticated round arch, nookshaft, mask to the keystone, pilasters, ornate spandrels with putti, a blind fanlight, and six-panel double doors. This doorway is flanked by two-light mullioned windows with oval oculi over, surmounted by swan-necked pediments, and rusticated flat arches to cross windows. Central bays face both High Street and Severn Street.

The building incorporates ornate Dutch gables, pilasters, urns, and Renaissance motifs. Centre pilasters descend to brackets at the sill band, and paired sash windows are flanked by small windows with ornate aprons. The first floor mirrors the design of the second, with round arches. A modern plate glass window is located on the ground floor of the High Street elevation and a blocked "Dutch" doorcase is present on the Severn Street elevation, alongside sash windows. A plain gable end is visible on Parker’s Lane. Raking gable parapets are visible to the rear on Severn Street.

The outer bays of the High and Severn Street elevations include round arched sash windows on the second floor and cross windows on the first floor. Facing Parker’s Lane, the elevations are plain, with a further two-storey, three-window block to the rear, linked by a broad doorway with balusters above. Raking gable parapets are present.