Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Upper Enig House
Talgarth, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Talgarth, Powys, designated on 14 August 1995.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 14 August 1995
- Locality
- Talgarth
- Community
- Talgarth
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.99451, -3.23167
- Cadw reference
- 16282
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1856 · 42. Brecon. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1896 · 214 Talgarth (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
The house stands at the end of a terrace of cottages, at the junction of Hospital Road and Penybont Road, behind a railed front area.
Exterior
House of the early-mid C19, possibly with earlier origins. Two storeys, 3 bay. Central C19 glazed door within timber doorcase and flat canopy. Two-light later C19 casement windows in openings with slightly cambered heads, and first floor sill band. Above central bay, a small decorative gable with a blind lunette. Gable stacks.
Reason for designation
Included as a good example of a mid C19 village house.
Nearby in the register
- The Bridge End InnCommercialunder 1 mi
- Town HallCivilunder 1 mi
- Talgarth MillIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Old Post OfficeNo class recordedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.