119 listed buildings, 2 of them Grade I

Porth-Mawr GatehouseGrade I listedIvy TowersGrade II* listedLatham HouseGrade II* listedSt Edmunds King & Marthyr Parish ChurchGrade II* listedThe Bear HotelGrade II* listed+3See all photos

Photos from Wikimedia Commons and Geograph, copied to our own server, each credited to its photographer with its licence; names open the building’s page or its official list entry.

Cadw lists buildings of special architectural or historic interest in three grades: Grade I for buildings of exceptional interest, Grade II* for particularly important buildings of more than special interest, and Grade II for buildings of special interest. Listing protects the whole building, inside and out.

Every entry on Cadw’s register of listed buildings whose point lies inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary. One list entry can cover a terrace or a group of buildings.

Of the 119 entries, 41 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.

Cadw’s conservation areas via DataMapWales. Hectares are the part of each area inside the built-up area.

The first 2 entries were listed in 1952, 1 of the 2 Grade I buildings among them. 94 came in 1986. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.

2 scheduled monuments

Nationally important archaeological sites and monuments, protected by law; work on them needs consent from the Welsh Government (Cadw).

Two measures, each ranked against every UK town of 1,000 or more, with protected heritage counting twice as much as the age of homes. Protected heritage counts each listed building by its grade (Grade I three points, II* two, II one), each scheduled monument and battlefield two, and each registered park or garden by its grade; it is ranked both per 10,000 residents and as a total, so a village with one fine church doesn’t outrank a historic city. The second measure is the share of homes built before 1919, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records. History is a character grade: it describes the town and isn’t part of the overall grade.

25% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1973–82, which added 28% of today’s homes.

Valuation Office Agency, council tax stock of properties by build period, 31 March 2025, for the neighbourhoods (LSOAs) that make up the town, split by where their residents live. Homes with no recorded build period (0 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

Thomas North

Walter Cowan

Bobby Lloyd

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Walter Cowan1871–1956 · British naval officel, Royal Navy admiral (1871-1956)

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Thomas North1858–1942 · New Zealand cricketer

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Bobby Lloyd1888–1930 · Welsh rugby union and rugby league footballer (1888-1930)

Everyone born in Crickhowell → Birthplaces from Wikidata; portraits from Wikimedia Commons.

Few towns are as rich in listed heritage as Crickhowell: per resident it has more than 95% of UK towns. In all there are 119 listed buildings, 2 of them Grade I. Its housing is old: 25% of homes date from before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. Only 35 of the 1,455 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings.

Bridge Street alone has 17 listed buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1969. Of the whole list, 58% are houses, terraces and villas. Beyond that, it also has 2 scheduled monuments.