Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Waterloo House (including former cottage to right)
Meifod, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Meifod Village, Meifod, Powys, designated on 26 May 1995.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 26 May 1995
- Locality
- Meifod Village
- Community
- Meifod
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.70936, -3.25364
- Cadw reference
- 15945
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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)
- 1899 · 151 Welshpool (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
Located at the SW end of the village, on the corner of High Street with the road to Guilsfield.
Exterior
A house of c.1810-15. Rubble stone with hipped slate roof. Boxed eaves. Red brick chimney stacks. Two storeys, 3 bays, with lower 2-storey wing at the NW end, formerly called Waterloo Cottage, and attached to the present Waterloo Cottage at the SE end. Central 6-panelled door in doorcase with panelled reveals and bracketed flat canopy. Twelve-paned sashes, the centre sash over the door with ogee head and pointed arched glazing bars. The wing to the right has a boarded door and multi-paned window, small sash to first floor.
Interior
Narrow hallway with stair at rear. Large fireplace with timber lintel to probable original principal kitchen-living room on right, with panelled door at side connecting to the wing, formerly an independent cottage. Room left of hall probably originally unheated, now with inserted stack. Filled in cellar. Apex quarry of ogee window to first floor has scratched inscription David Rowlands, Llanfyllin, April 18th 1815.
Reason for designation
Included as a handsome and well preserved house of the early C19.
Nearby in the register
- Waterloo Cottage (formerly Waterloo View)Domesticunder 1 mi
- The Old Post OfficeDomesticunder 1 mi
- House adjoining The Old Post Office at the N EndDomesticunder 1 mi
- Ger-y-Nant (Brook House)Domesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.