Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Powis Castle Lodge
Welshpool, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Welshpool, Powys, designated on 29 February 1996.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 29 February 1996
- Locality
- Welshpool
- Community
- Welshpool
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.65960, -3.15065
- Cadw reference
- 16703
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
At the entrance to Powis Castle Park, on the S side of the gates.
Exterior
History: The building is dated 1932 on the rainwater heads.
Exterior: Random rubble with freestone dressings; graded slate roof with axial stack. Neo-Jacobean vernacular style. One and a half storeys, near-symmetrically planned with central full-height porch with steep coped gable; 4-centred arched entrance and battened wood doorway within; Powis arms in painted low-relief above the outer archway and 2-light mullioned window above with arched headed lights. Flanking stone mullioned windows of 3 and 4 lights. Return elevations each have 2-light mullioned windows, paired in upper storey.
Included as a good example of a small neo-vernacular cottage which forms part of a group with the entrance gates to Powis Castle Park
Nearby in the register
- Gate Piers & Gates to Powis Castle ParkGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Welshpool Baptist ChurchReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- 1 Chelsea LaneDomesticunder 1 mi
- 11A High StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.