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Carreghofa, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Wern, Carreghofa, Powys, designated on 5 April 1993.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 5 April 1993
- Locality
- Wern
- Community
- Carreghofa
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.77328, -3.10376
- Cadw reference
- 14217
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesLlyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1795 map "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1795 · To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most… (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1897 · 137 Oswestry (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1916 · Sheet 60. Shrewsbury. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
About 300m SW of Wern and approached via short track from crossroads 100m. SE of Carreghofa Locks.
History
Probably 1821 (dated lead rainhead).
Exterior
Two storeys, attic and cellar, single pile with two adjoining parallel rear wings, rubble stone with roughly square quoins, clay tiled roofs. Brick end stacks to left gable and to gable and ridge to left hand wing where it adjoins main front. Three windows; ground floor, inserted C19 large-paned sashes with side lights under dressed stone lintels and cills; first floor, three-light with central casement under stone cambered heads; attic, two-light casements. Central recessed door, two-panel with glazed upper, door case with fluted strips, plain pitch-roofed canopy on curved brackets. Single two-light casement to attic storey of right gable. Right hand rear (dairy) wing has symmetrical fenestration on the ground floor and first floors; all two-light casements under cambered stone heads except lower right which retains cruciform window with metal bars, gauze infill and internal shutters.
Interior
Front left hand room with large open fireplace, arched stone surround with projecting keystone; front left room with plain marble fire surround. Six-panel doors, stairs formerly with dogleg rising out of front hall, now converted to straight run; template brackets to open string. Two single storey lean-to's attached to left gable - rubble stone with tiled roof and brick with glazed roof - modern openings.
Nearby in the register
- By-Pass Pond and Spillway with Sluice-Gate to south of upper lock chamberTransportunder 1 mi
- Upper Lock ChamberTransportunder 1 mi
- Toll Gauger's Hut to E of No 1 The LocksTransportunder 1 mi
- Lock-Keeper's Cottage adjoining Lower Lock Chamber on Montgomeryshire CanalDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.