Talbot Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 25 April 1950. Public house. 3 related planning applications.
Talbot Public House
- WRENN ID
- weathered-lead-marsh
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 25 April 1950
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- Talbot Public House, 16 High Street, Welshpool, SY21 7JP
- OS grid reference
- SJ 222 076
- Coordinates
- 52.66057, -3.15126
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Talbot Public House is a building that likely dates from the late 16th to early 17th century and was raised in height in the later 18th century. It has a long history of use as a public house and was formerly known as The Corner House.
The exterior features exposed timber framing in the gable end and rear elevation, with box framing composed of square panels and a queen post and collar strut roof. The raised upper storey is also framed, with thin scantling posts visible in the rear elevation. The street-facing elevation is rendered. The building has a slate roof with a brick stack on the left-hand gable, which was raised in height in the later 19th century, and another stack to the rear, which has a rubble base with a brick shaft above. The gable end is adorned with scalloped barge-boards. The doorway is positioned to the left of centre and is sheltered by an early 19th-century timber porch. Originally, marbled Tuscan columns framed the entrance, but these were replaced with square timber posts between 1950 and 1980, while the entablature remains, featuring relief lozenge-work panels on either side. The flanking windows are 2-light casements, and the upper windows, which include a left-side window that is not aligned, are small-paned horizontally sliding sashes. All windows are fitted with shutters. The rear elevation includes a small-paned iron casement window in a catslide dormer to the right, while a similar dormer window to the left is partially obscured by a separately roofed small two-storeyed rear wing, likely added in the early 19th century.
Inside, the building has a two-room plan that has been modified to create a central bar. There is an axial chimney with corner fireplaces that retain chamfered bressumers; the fireplace in the current lounge may be a later addition, as its cambered bressumer appears to cut through the scrolled chamfer stop of the main axial beam.
The Talbot Public House is an important example of a timber-framed town house, retaining its original layout largely intact.
Local climate
Talbot Public House receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2024
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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