194 listed buildings, 3 of them Grade II*

Railway StationGrade II listedNewtown Old ChurchScheduled monumentThe Long BridgeGrade II listedFormer Flannel Exchange and Assembly RoomsGrade II listedBlack Boy HotelGrade II listed+7See 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.

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Public domain, from Wikimedia Commons, copied to our own server. Each credit opens the image’s page with its full description and history.

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. Neighbourhood dots: the population-weighted centre of each Census 2021 output area, coloured by its neighbourhood’s (LSOA’s) share of homes built before 1919 (Valuation Office Agency, March 2025).

Of the 194 entries, 99 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.

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

The first 8 entries were listed in 1949. 179 came in 1988. Only 3 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).

Newtown Hall Castle MoundMedieval; Motte

Newtown Old ChurchMedieval; Church

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.

Robert Owen

John Basson Humffray

James Trow

Pryce Pryce-Jones

Edgar Montford

William Finney

Albert Pryce-Jones

Thomas Chapman

Dickie Morris

George Latham

Sir Cecil Day

Ernest Norton

Harry Beadles

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Robert Owen1771–1858 · Welsh textile manufacturer and social reformer (1771–1858)

George Latham1881–1939 · Welsh footballer (1881-1939)

Harry Beadles1897–1958 · Welsh footballer (1897-1958)

DM

Dickie Morris1879–2000 · Welsh footballer

AP

Albert Pryce-Jones1870–1946 · British association football player (1870-1946)

Pryce Pryce-Jones1834–1920 · British politician born in Wales

EM

Edgar Montford1865–1940 · Welsh footballer (1865-1940)

WF

William Finney1866–1927 · Welsh cricketer (1866-1927)

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

Per resident, Newtown has more listed heritage than 89% of UK towns. All told, the list holds 194 listed buildings, including Society of Friends' Meeting House. On Crescent Street alone there are 26 listed buildings. Its older streets lie in 2 conservation areas.

Most entries on the list, 59%, are houses, terraces and villas. Robert Owen (1771), George Latham (1881) and Harry Beadles (1897) are among the 13 people born here before 1900. The big year was 1988, when 179 of the 194 went on the list. The rest is about typical: like most towns its size, it has no Grade I building; it also has 2 scheduled monuments; and 15% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.