Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Estate Office including House to rear
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
- 52.27217, -3.56646
- Cadw reference
- 16208
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
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.