Royal Welsh Warehouse

The Royal Welsh Warehouse is a substantial building located on Kerry Road, Newtown, constructed in the late 19th century with a later extension. The original warehouse, dated around the 1880s, is a seven-bay, three-story structure with an attic and basement. It is built using Flemish bond brickwork with freestone dressings. The roof is hipped, with a stepped gable at the centre bearing the inscription "Pryce Jones, Royal Welsh Warehouse." The building features a plain eaves cornice, keystoned cambered windows, and a moulded attic cornice. Notably, a Diocletian window is located on the second floor of the central bay, adorned with ornate spandrels and paired windows. Architectural details include a sillband, classical pilasters, broad round arched windows, and plain Venetian Renaissance windows on the first floor band. The ground floor features plain cambered arches with keystones, and a central entrance. A cresting and open pediment, supported by consoles, tops the facade, featuring a figure of Industry and daughters within the tympanum. The entrance is flanked by detached pink marble columns with composite capitals. Modern brick piers now support the pediment. Armorial escutcheons are present on the front and returns to the porch. Inside, a recessed concave entrance hall features a decorative tympanum grill with sliding gates, leading to a cambered arch with panelled and glazed inner doors. Basement windows have plain lintels. Commemorative exhibition medallions, including references to Philadelphia 1876 and Vienna 1873, decorate the pilasters. Cast iron lintels are found on some rear windows. An extension was added to the left rear in 1886. A gabled stair bay adjoins a lift well with a turret.

A later wing, constructed in 1901, is four stories high with an attic and dormers. This wing, also built with Flemish bond brickwork, curves into Kerry Road over ten bays. Advanced bays are positioned at the corner and right end, and the roof is steeply pitched with railings along the ridge platform. Modern lift hoists are present. Dormers are flat-roofed with three lights each. Moulded arcades run along the eaves, above paired shallow sash windows set between twin pilasters in the attic bays. Pediments with oculi feature over three windows of the advanced bays. A plain entablature runs along the building's length, and broad cambered gauged brick arches frame the tripartite top three-story windows, supported by pilasters. Lower floors feature banded pilasters and freestone facing. Plaques with Railway and Steamship motifs decorate the corner advanced bay’s pilasters. Arched windows with keystones are found on the first floor, along with paired fluted end pilasters and ball finials. The advanced bay on the right displays the Royal Arms of Edward VII, incorporating an open pediment on brackets and fluted pilasters, with flanking windows and rusticated end pilasters. A similarly designed bay is at the corner, featuring a scrolled pediment and a heraldic medallion with a hood in the tympanum. Panelled double doors provide access. Plain lintels are present over ground-floor windows.

A bridge once connected the building to a factory opposite at third-floor level. The rear elevation mirrors the front and includes a loading bay to the right, adjoining a washroom tower surmounted by a prospect cupola.

Internally, the building contains transverse beams supported by plain cast iron columns and a good imperial staircase leading to the first and second floors. A stained-glass window on the first-floor landing displays the Royal Arms, signifying royal patronage, and is separated from the later wing by iron sliding fireproof doors, retaining original fittings.