Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Crescent Cottage
Talgarth, Powys, Wales
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
- 51.99571, -3.22960
- Cadw reference
- 16291
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
Pair of town houses at the W end of a row of houses facing N over the churchyard of the Church of St Gwendoline.
Exterior
Two houses of the early-mid C19, rendered with slate roof. Two storeys. Crescent House texture-painted and with crested red clay ridge tiles. Gable stacks. The houses are defined by full-height Tuscan pilasters, the W end pilaster now missing, Crescent House retaining modillion bracketed eaves. Crescent House is of 3 bays, with central C20 door having a modillion canopy with swept roof. Windows replaced later C19, with 4-pane sashes in deep reveals.
Crescent Cottage is of 2 bays, with part-glazed C20 door under a similar modillion swept canopy. Original 12-pane sashes with wide boxes, and stone sills.
Reason for designation
Included as of group value both within the row of cottages and for the setting of the church at the top of the town.
Nearby in the register
- Crescent HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- BrynglwysDomesticunder 1 mi
- RosendaalDomesticunder 1 mi
- Highcliffe HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.