Royal Welsh Warehouse

The Royal Welsh Warehouse is a substantial building, dating from the mid-19th century, located on Kerry Road, Newtown. It is a group value building, recognised for its contribution to the townscape.

The main section of the warehouse is a 7-bay, 3-storey structure with an attic and basement. It is constructed of Flemish bond brick with freestone dressings, and features a hipped roof. A stepped gable is centrally positioned and bears the lettering "Pryce Jones, Royal Welsh Warehouse". The building has a plain eaves cornice. The windows are cambered, with keystones, arranged three to the central bay and in pairs between pilasters to the rest of the front. A moulded attic cornice sits above, and a Diocletian window with ornate spandrels is located on the second floor of the centre bay, flanked by paired windows and lintels. A sill band runs along the facade. The first floor features three cambered windows in the centre bay, with classical pilasters, and broad, round-arched windows elsewhere, incorporating Venetian Renaissance detailing. The ground floor has plain, broad, cambered arches with keystones. A central entrance is provided, ornamented with a Royal Arms cresting with an open pediment on consoles and a tympanum featuring a figure of Industry and her daughters. Detached pink marble columns with composite capitals flank the pilasters. A modern lintel on brick piers provides support for the pediment. Armorial escutcheons are displayed on the front and returns to the porch. The recessed, concave entrance hall features a decorative tympanum grill and sliding gates. Cambered, panelled and glazed inner doors lead inside, while plain lintels are found above the basement windows. Commemorative exhibition medallions, including references to Philadelphia 1876 and Vienna 1873, are incorporated into the pilasters. Cast iron lintels are present on some of the rear windows. A rear extension, dating from 1886, is located to the left. A gabled stair bay adjoins a lift well with a turret.

A later wing, added in 1901, is a 4-storey structure with an attic and dormers. It is constructed of Flemish bond brick and comprises 10 bays that curve into Kerry Road, featuring advanced bays to the corner and right end. The roof is steeply pitched with slate covering and railings to the ridge platform. Modern lift hoists are present. Three-light, flat-roofed dormers are incorporated. A moulded arcade runs above the eaves cornices. Paired shallow sash windows are positioned between twin pilasters in the attic bays, and pediments with oculus windows top three windows of the advanced bays. A plain entablature sits above an attic cornice. Broad, cambered, gauged brick arches frame the tripartite, top three-storey windows, with pilasters. The advanced bays have four sash windows on the third and second floors, supported by banded pilasters and freestone detailing on the first and ground floors. Plaques displaying Railway and Steamship motifs adorn the pilasters of the corner advanced bay. Four arched windows are located on the first floor, with keystones and impost bands. Fluted end pilasters terminate in ball finials. The Royal Arms of Edward VII are displayed on the right-hand advanced bay, beneath an open pediment on brackets, flanked by fluted pilasters and rusticated end pilasters. A similar bay is located at the corner, featuring a scrolled pediment and a heraldic medallion with a hood to the tympanum. Panelled double doors provide entrance, and plain lintels are over the ground floor windows.

Previously, a bridge connected the building to a factory located opposite, at third-floor level, to the right of the corner entrance. The rear elevation is similar to the front, and includes a loading bay to the right, adjoining a washroom tower with a prospect cupola.