Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Elmhurst
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
- 52.65706, -3.14390
- Cadw reference
- 16726
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
Set back from the road in grounds on the W side of the Police Station.
Exterior
History: The house was built for Miss Clive, sister to Archdeacon Clive, and niece of Robert, Lord Clive, c1840.
Exterior: Simple domestic gothic style. Random local sandstone rubble with painted freestone dressings and slate roof with coped gables and axial and gable end stacks. 2 storeys, 3-window range with secondary advanced wing to the right. Advanced central gable houses entrance in embattled and buttressed shallow porch with depressed 4-centred arch and paired partly glazed inner doors. 3-light mullioned and transomed window with small panes above the entrance. Flanking bays have tall 2-light mullioned and transomed windows with small panes on each floor. Similar fenestration in gable end of advanced right hand wing.
A fine example of the domestic gothic style favoured for larger houses in the mid C1
Nearby in the register
- Dolanog CottagesDomesticunder 1 mi
- Gates, gate piers & boundary walls to Nos 1-4 Clive PlaceDomesticunder 1 mi
- Clive PlaceDomesticunder 1 mi
- Clive PlaceDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.