Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Cadan View
Rhayader, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 31 July 1995
- Locality
- Elan Village
- Community
- Rhayader
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.27201, -3.56682
- Cadw reference
- 16207
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 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
At SW end of village.
History
Detached house (perhaps former shop) in village built by City of Birmingham for maintenance workers at Elan Valley reservoir scheme. Designed between 1906 and 1909 by Buckland, Haywood, & Farmer, architects, of Birmingham.
Exterior
Arts & Crafts style. Brown rubble with bathstone dressings, slate roof. Mullioned windows. Two storeys. Elevation facing road has 2 large gables each with 3-light first floor window; on ground floor, 2 bay windows with connecting roof over, recessed central entrance doorway. Left side has, to rear, gable with 3-light first floor window and ground floor splayed bay window, to R, 2-light window. Right side has, to rear, gable with 4-light first floor window, and 2-light ground floor window (L). In angle between gables, porch with hipped slate roof. To rear, attached wall encloses yard with outbuildings; gable to R end with upper loading door; single storey range to L links back to house.
Reason for designation
High quality early C20 Arts & Crafts building, forming part of group of Garden Village buildings in Elan Village.
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- Estate Office including House to rearCommercialunder 1 mi
- Shelter and FountainGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Elan Valley LodgeDomesticunder 1 mi
- No 1Domesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.