Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Outbuilding to Frondeg
Meifod, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 26 May 1995
- Locality
- Allt-y-Main
- Community
- Meifod
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.72134, -3.23884
- Cadw reference
- 15955
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1795 "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).
Cadw's description
Location
Located close to the side of the road, below Frondeg house.
Exterior
A three-storey outbuilding of the late C18 or early C19. Local stone and slate roof. Three storeys, one bay, gable end to road, comprising two arched open fronted trap houses at road level, with stables on the first floor accessed from the steep driveway at the rear, originally with a 6-panelled 'Welsh Cross' door, and the ostler's lodging on the top floor. The stable floor has blank arched recesses on the gable elevation, and a large round headed opening to the lodging. Two C20 timber windows on the side elevation.
Said to be originally intended for the accommodation of guests for the annex to Pen-y-lan.
Reason for designation
Listed as an ingenious service building and a distinctive local feature.
Nearby in the register
- Bron-y-MainDomesticunder 1 mi
- Ty Bach at Ceunant FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Ceunant FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Straw Barn at Ceunant FarmAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.