Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
The Old Post Office
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
- 52.70995, -3.25365
- Cadw reference
- 15947
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 core of the village, on the corner opposite the road to Pentre.
Exterior
Town house of the early C19. Flemish bond brickwork with slate roof. Three storeys, 3 bays, the right hand bay being wider. Gable stacks.
C20 door with glazed top within a late C19 framed timber porch. Sixteen-paned sashes, 4 x 2 paned sashes to the second floor, the windows of the lower floors with flat tumbled brick lintels and stone sills. Two dormers to rear, and roof extended over a 2-storey extension.
Interior
Modernised. original living kitchen occupies the wider bay to the right.
Reason for designation
Included as a well preserved traditional early C19 facade, of group value within the village.
Nearby in the register
- House adjoining The Old Post Office at the N EndDomesticunder 1 mi
- Vyrnwy House (including the front garden railings)Domesticunder 1 mi
- Fountain at the fornt of Aldwyn HouseGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 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.