Church of Saint Mary · Photo: Dave Kelly · CC BY-SA 2.0

History of Welshpool · Cadw

203 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I

On the Cadw list, all of them stand inside Welshpool’s built-up area, 372 for every 10,000 residents. It also has 2 scheduled monuments. 25% of its homes were built before 1919. We have photos of 6 of its listed buildings and 2 old views of the town. Welshpool grades A+ for history: #2 of 7 in Powys.

1Grade I 3Grade II*2scheduled monuments 32on High Street

Listed buildings

203

372 per 10,000 residents

Grade I

exceptional interest

Grade II*

more than special interest

Scheduled monuments

nationally important sites

Homes built before 1919

25%

typical UK town 15%

In pictures

Welshpool in 9 photos and old views

Nearly every Grade I and II* building, photographed, and the town before 1950. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.

Former Powysland Museum & LibraryGrade II* listed

Christ ChurchGrade II* listed

Powis Castle LodgeGrade II listed

Welshpool Town LockGrade II listed

Pinewood TavernGrade II listed+4See 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.

Through time

Welshpool from 1940 to 1947

2 old photos and postcards, in date order. All public domain, made before 1950.

War and afterWelshpool Home Guard on paradePhoto: Geoff Charles · CC0

War and afterHome Guard stand-down, WelshpoolPhoto: Geoff Charles · CC0

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

The map

Where Welshpool’s history is

Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park, over the age of each neighbourhood’s homes.

Grade IGrade II*Scheduled monument

Homes built before 1919, by neighbourhoodunder 10%10–25%25–50%50%+

0 of 4neighbourhoods have mostly pre-1919 homes; in the oldest, 35% were built before 1919.

Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.

203 listed buildings by grade

1 Grade I3 Grade II*199 Grade II

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).

Grade I

The Grade I listed building in Welshpool

Buildings of exceptional interest, about 1.6% of all listed buildings. Every one is photographed. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.

Church · listed 1981St Mary's ChurchOn the list as Church of Saint MaryPhoto: Dave Kelly · CC BY-SA 2.0

Grade II*

The 3 Grade II* listed buildings in Welshpool

Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. 2 are photographed.

Public · listed 1996Former Powysland Museum & LibraryPhoto: A J Paxton · CC BY-SA 2.0

Church · listed 1950Christ ChurchPhoto: Penny Mayes · CC BY-SA 2.0

House · listed 19815 & 6 High Street

Historic streets

High Street has the most listed buildings

Streets by the listed entries with an address on them. One entry can be a whole terrace, so long rows count once.

High Street32 listed · 1 II*

Broad Street21 listed

Church Street11 listed

Severn Street11 listed

Mount Street9 listed

Salop Road8 listed

Hall Street5 listed

Waterloo Place4 listed

Berriew Street3 listed

Union Street3 listed

Waterloo Terrace3 listed

Of the 203 entries, 115 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.

What’s protected

Most of Welshpool’s listed buildings are homes

Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.

Houses, terraces & villas142

Inns, shops & warehouses34

Public & civic buildings10

Churches, chapels & priories6

Walls, gates & bridges6

Street furniture4

Memorials, crosses & tombs1

142 entries (70%) are houses, terraces and villas. 6 are churches, chapels and priories, including 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings.

Buildings are sorted by Cadw’s broad class for each building, else by words in its name; an entry named only by its address counts as a house.

Grade II

199 Grade II listed buildings

Most listed buildings are in this grade, which covers buildings of special interest. Open any building to read its official list entry.

The first 150 of 199 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z

Ael-y-Bryn including forecourt railings and steps Aqueduct Cottage Ardwyn Nursery and Infant School Bodowen, including railings to streets on N and W Church House Clive Place Clive Place Clive Place Clive Place Coach Chambers Collen Buildings including railings to front garden Collen Buildings including railings to front garden Collen Buildings including railings to front garden Cottage 1 (Canal Agent Office)Cottage 2 Dolanog Cottages Elenydd including railings to forecourt Elmhurst Entrance gate, flanking walls and railings adjoining First Lodge to Llanerchydol Hall First Lodge to Llanerchydol Hall Former Canal Warehouse Former Cooper's shop adjoining Former English Congregational Church Former Grammar School Former Railway Bridge over Montgomeryshire Canal Former Royal Oak Flannel Factory Gate House Gate Piers & Gates to Powis Castle Park Gates, gate piers & boundary walls to Nos 1-4 Clive Place Glandwr Grace Evans Cottage Gungrog Hall Heath Bank Henfaes House Ivy House Lledan Brook Aqueduct and Weir Lloyd's Bank Mansion House including railings to street Mermaid Inn Midland Bank No2 Gungrog Hall Old Beams Old Cockpit Oldford Cottage Oldford House Pair of Inscribed Stones in Union Bridge Parapet Park Lane House including railings to street Park Terrace Park Terrace Park Terrace Pen Maes Pillar Box on corner with Erw Wen Pinewood Tavern Pinewood Tavern Pinewood Tavern Powis Castle Lodge Powys County Council Offices Powysland Museum (Town Wharf Warehouse)Railings and Gates at Nos 1-3 Waterloo Terrace Railings and Gates to Grapes PH, Sussex House and Heath Bank Railings to front gardens Railings, gates and walls Retaining walls, steps, gate-piers and gates to churchyard at Church of St Mary Royal Oak Hotel South View Sundial in churchyard at Church of St Mary Sunville Sussex House Talbot Public House The Crown Hotel The Grapes PH The Green Dragon PH The Pheasant PH Town Hall and Market Traethllawn Trustees Savings Bank Universal Pentecostal Church Victoria House Walls, steps and gates to forecourt of Church House War Memorial in churchyard at Church of St Mary Welshpool Baptist Church Welshpool Railway Station Buildings Welshpool Town Lock Ysgol Maesydre 1 Berriew Street 1 Boot Street 1 Chelsea Lane 1 Church Bank.1 High Street 1 Mount Street 1 Salop Road 1 Waterloo Place 1 Waterloo Terrace 1&2 Church Street 1-2 New Street 10 High Street 10 Severn Street 11 Hall Street 11 High Street 11 Severn Street 11A High Street 12 Hall Street 12 Severn Street 12-13 Broad Street 12A Hall Street 13A Broad Street 13B Broad Street 14 Broad Street 14 High Street 15 High Street 17 High Street 18 Berriew Street 18 High Street 18 Severn Street 19 Berriew Street 19 High Street 19 Severn Street 1A High Street 2 Church Bank.2 Church Street 2 High Street 2 Waterloo Place 2 Waterloo Terrace 20 High Street 20 Severn Street 21 Broad Street 21 High Street 21 Severn Street 22 Broad Street 22 High Street 22 Severn Street 23 High Street 23 Severn Street 24 Broad Street 24 High Street 25 Broad Street 25 High Street 25 Severn Street 26 Broad Street 26 High Street 26 Severn Street 27 Broad Street 28 Broad Street 29 Broad Street 29 High Street 3 Broad Street 3 Church Street 3 High Street 3 Waterloo Place 3 Waterloo Terrace

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Conservation areas

1 conservation area covers 11% of Welshpool

Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.

Welshpool24 ha

24 hain conservation areas, of 224 ha inside the built-up area.

177 of the 203 listed buildings stand in one.

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

How the list grew

More than half of Welshpool’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1981

The year each building now on the list was first listed.

1981 · 1301996 · 371950 · 19

19501960197019801990200020102020

The first 19 entries were listed in 1950. 130 came in 1981. Only 3 have been added in the last 15 years.

Monuments & landscapes

Monuments, parks and gardens

Designations that overlap the town by a tenth of their area or half a hectare.

2 scheduled monuments

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

Domen Castell Mound and Bailey CastleMedieval; Motte and Bailey

Railway Transfer Dock at WelshpoolPost Medieval/Modern; Railway

History Grade

Welshpool grades A+ for history

Protected heritage and the age of the town’s homes, against all UK towns.

Protected heritage, for its size and in all (212 points, 388 per 10,000 residents)More than 95% of UK towns

Homes built before 1919 (25%)More than 74% of UK towns

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.

Homes by age

25% of Welshpool’s homes were built before 1919

Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).

23%

Before 1900

1.6%

1900–18

5.5%

1919–29

1.2%

1930s

11%

1945–54

3.5%

1955–64

9.7%

1965–72

9.4%

1973–82

13%

1983–92

10%

1993–99

5.1%

2000–08

2.6%

2009–15

4.2%

2016–25

WelshpoolEngland & Wales

23% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1983–92, which added 13% 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.

Born here

8 notable people born in Welshpool before 1900

Their lives on one timeline, earliest first.

Sampson Lloyd

Edwin Davies

Sarah Winifred Parry

Fred Davies

Thomas Llewellyn Jones

James Harrison

William Herbert Waring

Roderick Urwick Sayce

1650170017501800185019001950

Fred Davies1871– · English footballer (1871-?)

James Harrison1880–1957 · British Army general (1880–1957)

Sarah Winifred Parry1870–1953 · Writer and editor of Cymru'r Plant from 1908 to 1912 (1870–1953)

William Herbert Waring1885–1918 · Welsh soldier (1885–1918); recipient of the Victoria Cross

Sampson Lloyd1664–1725 · English iron manufacturer in Birmingham (1664–1725)

Edwin Davies1859–1919 · Editor and publisher (1859 -1919)

Thomas Llewellyn Jones1872–1946 · Australian company director and politician (1872-1946)

Roderick Urwick Sayce1890–1970 · British social anthropologist (1890-1970)

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

Towns its size

Welshpool has the 86th most Grade I buildings of 908 towns its size

Places of 3,000–9,000 people outside London, by Grade I listed buildings.

Welshpool1

#20 of 908for listed buildings per resident (372 per 10,000). Sandwich, Tenby and Brecon lead.

85 have more. The typical town its size has 0.

Neighbours

Listed buildings in the places around Welshpool

Town	People	Listed	Grade I	History
Welshpool	5,460	203	1	A⁺
Guilsfield	1,160	22	1	A⁻
Four Crosses	1,469	12	0	B⁺
Llanymynech	1,040	17	0	B⁺
Llanfyllin	1,118	80	0	A⁺
Minsterley	1,719	16	0	B
Pant	1,173	4	0	C⁺
Pontesbury	1,968	14	0	B⁺

In brief

Welshpool in brief

Few towns are as rich in listed heritage as Welshpool: per resident it has more than 95% of UK towns. In all there are 203 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I, including St Mary's Church. Its housing is old: 25% of homes date from before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. Only 85 of the 908 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings.

High Street alone has 32 listed buildings. A conservation area protects part of it. Of the whole list, 70% are houses, terraces and villas. Beyond that, it also has 2 scheduled monuments.

Questions about Welshpool’s history

How many listed buildings are there in Welshpool?

Cadw lists 203 buildings inside Welshpool’s built-up area: 1 Grade I, 3 Grade II* and 199 Grade II.

What are the Grade I listed buildings in Welshpool?

One: Church of Saint Mary.

Which street in Welshpool has the most listed buildings?

High Street (32), Broad Street (21) and Church Street (11) have the most listed entries named by an address. One entry can be a whole terrace.

Are there scheduled monuments in Welshpool?

Yes, 2 scheduled monuments, including Domen Castell Mound and Bailey Castle and Railway Transfer Dock at Welshpool.

How many conservation areas are there in Welshpool?

1, covering about 24 hectares of the town. The largest is Welshpool.

When were Welshpool’s buildings listed?

The first in 1950; the most, 130, in 1981.

Are there old photos of Welshpool?

Yes: 2 public-domain photos and postcards from 1940 to 1947, all on this page.

Who was born in Welshpool?

Among people born before 1900: Fred Davies (1871), James Harrison (1880), Sarah Winifred Parry (1870), William Herbert Waring (1885) and Sampson Lloyd (1664).

How old are the homes in Welshpool?

25% of homes were built before 1919 and 32% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).

Sources: Cadw listed buildings, scheduled monuments and registered historic parks and gardens via DataMapWales, October 2026, inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary · Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties by build period (31 March 2025) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only · Cadw conservation areas via DataMapWales (October 2026). All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

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