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decided to acquire the disused Pump House Hotel, not just as their meeting place but for use as their office headquarters as well, in 1974. After the former hotel was found to be structurally unsound, county leaders decided to procure a new building; the site they selected was just to the east of the
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The Pump House Hotel had its origins in an early 18th century farmhouse known as Bach y Craig; after a saline and a sulphur spring was found on the farm in 1736, the medicinal properties of the spring were publicised by a German physician, Diederick Linden, in 1756. After a change of ownership in
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The county council moved its archives centre off the cramped County Hall site to new premises in Ddole Road in October 2017. It then sought planning permission (from its own planning committee) to expand the capacity of the County Hall complex, by erecting a single storey extension and a new
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1868, the aging hotel was replaced by a modern structure designed by Shepherd & Sons of Cardiff which was completed in 1888. It was used as a military hospital during the
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The Pump House Hotel, used by the County Council as their headquarters in the late 1970s and during the 1980s (on the left) and the old Pump House (on the right)
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and then became a teacher training college in 1947 before being converted for use as a school for deaf people in 1950 and then falling vacant in 1971.
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had been used for the treatment of patients, was retained. The new building, which was designed in the
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The works began with the demolition of the Pump House Hotel: the former pump house itself, where the
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as a series of connected pavilions, was officially opened on 27 November 1990.
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The modern County Hall (on the left) and the old Pump House (on the right)
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County Hall is located in Powys
Postmodern style
Llandrindod Wells
Powys
United Kingdom
Coordinates
52°14′16″N 3°22′23″W / 52.2378°N 3.3730°W / 52.2378; -3.3730
Welsh
Llandrindod Wells
Powys County Council

Local Government Act 1888
Radnorshire County Council
Llandrindod Wells
Gwalia Hotel
Local Government Act 1972
Powys County Council
mineral spring
Postmodern style
Queen Elizabeth II
Leonard Boden
Second World War
"Radnorshire County Council"


"County Buildings, Llandrindod Wells"
"Gwalia Hotel; Radnor District Council Offices (30680)"
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