Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Estate Office including House to rear
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
- 52.27217, -3.56646
- Cadw reference
- 16208
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
Situated to L of Caban View behind low wall with iron railings and gate.
History
Estate office (and house) 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. One storey office with 2-storey house to rear.
Front has single storey block with gable to R (slate hung apex, splayed bay window); to R of this, flat roofed wing with entrance door, and 3-light window
chimney to ridge. This block has bay window to L elevation with hipped slate roof. To rear, attached house has half hipped gable to R, small 2-light windows to first and ground floors; to L, roof sweeps down over ground floor (hipped dormer). Right end has gable with 2 windows, on ground floor, single storey attached block with hipped slate roof.
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
- Cadan ViewCommercialunder 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.