Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
No 4
Rhayader, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 31 July 1995
- Community
- Rhayader
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.27337, -3.56442
- Cadw reference
- 16214
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 L of No 3, to NE of small stone bridge.
History
Pair of semi-detached houses 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 pair of semi-detached houses. Brown rubble with bathstone dressings, slate roof. Mullioned windows (casements renewed). Three stone chimneys. Each house has advanced cross gable to end, with 3-light window to first floor; R house has 2-light window to ground floor, L house has splayed bay window, 3-lights to front. Between gables, each house has small hipped dormer, and 2-light ground floor window (grouped as pair). In angle with cross gable each house has porch has hipped slate roof.
Reason for designation
High quality early C20 Arts & Crafts pair of houses, forming part of group of Garden Village buildings in Elan Village.
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- No 5Domesticunder 1 mi
- No 3Domesticunder 1 mi
- Small Stone BridgeTransportunder 1 mi
- No 2Domesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.