Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Shelter and Fountain
Rhayader, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
- Date of designation
- 31 July 1995
- Locality
- Elan Village
- Community
- Rhayader
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.27248, -3.56605
- Cadw reference
- 16209
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
To NE of estate office.
History
Shelter with drinking water fountain. Dated "Anno Domini 1909".
Designed by Buckland, Haywood, & Farmer, architects, of Birmingham.
Exterior
Consists of hipped slate roof on square wooden posts. Stone walls. Sides consist of taller central section with curved top with lower ends supporting posts; stone dividing wall between sides. Side towards road has datestone and drinking water fountain.
Reason for designation
Included for group value with other contemporary buildings in Elan Village.
Nearby in the register
- Estate Office including House to rearCommercialunder 1 mi
- No 1Domesticunder 1 mi
- Elan Valley LodgeDomesticunder 1 mi
- Cadan ViewCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.