Two long, narrow, single-storey buildings and smaller cross-ranges, enclosing a yard, were erected in 1915 during the First World War (1914-1918) as stabling to speed the movement of partially broken-in young horses from the local mares to the cavalry and urban transport; officially designated an Army 'Remount Depot' the site was apparently known locally as the 'Horse Repository'. After the War the site became a horse market, complementing the adjacent Smithfield which opened in 1932. The buildings were used as a grain store during the Second World War (1939-1945) and in 1947 Mid-Wales Motorways purchased the site for use as a bus depot until 2009. The two principal buildings, and that at the west end, were of steel frame construction, each with a curved corrugated iron roof; the northern shed was about 120m long and the southern some 133m. The site was demolished and cleared in 2009/2010 to make way for a Tesco supermarket (nprn 410111).
(Sources include information from B. Poole, Newtown)
B.A.Malaws, RCAHMW, 13 July 2010.
