Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
No 8
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
- 52.27394, -3.56302
- Cadw reference
- 16218
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
Set back across green space.
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
Pair of semi-detached houses. Brown stone with bathstone dressings, slate roof.
Mullioned windows (casements renewed). Three stone chimneys. Arts & Crafts with irregular window levels Each house has eyebrow dormer window (2-light mullioned window across eaves), and to centre of pair is 4-light window.
On ground floor, each house has porch with hipped slate roof, to inner side of porch, small window, to outer side, 2-light window, then larger 2-light window.
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 9Domesticunder 1 mi
- No 7Domesticunder 1 mi
- No 6Domesticunder 1 mi
- No 10Domesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.