Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
No2 Limekiln Cottages
Welshpool, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 29 February 1996
- Locality
- Belan
- Community
- Welshpool
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.63928, -3.15896
- Cadw reference
- 16744
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 1795 "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).
Cadw's description
Location
Immediately E of the canal at Belan Locks, approached via a by-road from Sarn-y-bryn-caled cottages.
Exterior
History: 4 cottages associated with the Belan lime-kilns were in existence by 1840; but some time after 1859 they were replaced by the present houses, built by the Powis Estate.
Exterior: Brick to side walls and rear, the sides painted in imitation of timber framing; front wall is also painted in imitation of framing, apparently onto boards superimposed on a frame. This painting forms a series of quatrefoil panels. Slate roof with brick axial stack. Symmetrically planned, each cottage has outer doorway with battened plank door, and 2-light iron mullioned and transomed window with small panes to ground floor; small 2-light small paned iron casement window in gabled dormer above. No 1 has single storeyed outbuilding attached to the left.
The cottages are a striking example of the picturesque vernacular of the later C19 - and excellent examples of estate housing which form part of a group of structures at Belan Locks.
Reference: Stephen Hughes, The Archaeology of the Montgomeryshire Canal, 1988, pp.88-9.
Nearby in the register
- No1 Limekiln CottagesDomesticunder 1 mi
- No3 Limekiln CottagesDomesticunder 1 mi
- No4 Limekiln CottagesDomesticunder 1 mi
- Southern Lime-Kiln BankIndustrialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.