42 Broad Street

42 Broad Street is a building dated 1816, although it incorporates earlier elements and was remodeled in the later 19th century, likely around 1860. Originally, the site was home to the Montgomeryshire Bank in the early 19th century. Following the death of one of the bank's partners, Sir Arthur Owen of Glansevern, Beck's bank took over the site and likely constructed the existing building. Lloyds Bank later occupied the premises until 1976. While No 42 may have initially served as a dwelling associated with the bank, it was used for commercial purposes by the late 19th century.

The exterior features stucco with a rusticated ground floor and a lined finish above, topped with a slate roof and end wall stacks. The building has three storeys and a five-window range, with three windows for No 41 and two for No 42. No 41 includes a central doorway flanked by tripartite sash windows with segmentally arched heads and stressed voussoirs. There is a passage entry and doorway for No 42 next to each other, with a segmentally arched shop window to the right. The upper windows consist of 4-pane sashes on the first floor and 6-pane sashes beneath the eaves, all set within moulded architraves. A continuous sill band runs along the first floor, and the building is finished with a modillion eaves cornice and a blocking course.

This structure is a fine example of an early 19th-century commercial and domestic building.