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Rhayader, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Elan Village, Rhayader, Powys, designated on 31 July 1995.
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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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1637 · Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 179 Rhyader (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (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.