Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
No 10
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
- 52.27441, -3.56264
- Cadw reference
- 16220
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
At NE end of village.
History
Part of garden village type housing development 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.
Pair of gables to centre with diagonal stone chimney between. Two-light mullioned window to first floors, 3-light mullioned window to ground floors. To ends, roof sweeps down over ground floor (small flat roofed dormers beyond gables); entrance doorway with small window towards ends. Corner chimneys to rear angles.
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
- Elan VillageDomesticunder 1 mi
- No 9Domesticunder 1 mi
- No 8Domesticunder 1 mi
- No 7Domesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.