Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Brithdir Lock Cottage
Berriew, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Brithdir, Berriew, Powys, designated on 21 August 1995.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 21 August 1995
- Locality
- Brithdir
- Community
- Berriew
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.61295, -3.18305
- Cadw reference
- 16354
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 1795 map "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1795 · To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most… (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 151 Welshpool (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1916 · Sheet 60. Shrewsbury. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
On the NW side of the canal at Brithdir Lock, close to Brithdir Lane.
History
A cottage was probably first built at Brithdir Lock when the canal was constructed, 1794-7, but the early cottage was encased in blue brick and remodelled in the later C19, probably as part of a programme of works carried out by The Shropshire Union Canals and Railway Company in the 1880's and 1890's.
Exterior
Blue brick with slate roof with end and side wall stacks. 2 storeys, main range with short wing to front. Doorway in angle of main block and wing (4-panelled door with overlight), and small window above it. Main windows are in gable end, facing up the canal: 2-light casement windows with cambered brick heads. Similar windows in gable of wing to left. Small yard enclosed by blue-brick walls to the left of the house.
Reason for designation
A good example of a largely late C19 lock keeper's cottage, which forms part of an important group of canal structures at Brithdir Lock.
Nearby in the register
- Brtihdir LockTransportunder 1 mi
- Brithdir LimekilnsIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Bridge 125 over the Montgomeryshire CanalTransportunder 1 mi
- Horseshoes PHCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.