Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Mount Pleasant
Welshpool, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Buttington Cross, Welshpool, Powys, designated on 29 February 1996.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 29 February 1996
- Locality
- Buttington Cross
- Community
- Welshpool
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.67281, -3.12739
- Cadw reference
- 16754
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 division of Rhallt Lane and Gugnrog Fawr Lane, 250m approx. W of the roundabout on the A483 at Buttington Cross.
Exterior
History: The house is probably mid-late C18.
Exterior: Brick with slate roof and gable end stacks. 2 storeys, 3-window range with central entrance. Panelled door with shallow hood carried on brackets. Flanking windows are iron mullions and transoms with small panes, and steep cambered brick heads. Similar windows on upper floor and in rear elevation which has a tall central stair window.
A largely unaltered example of a small C18 house of some quality.
Nearby in the register
- Bridge 115 over the Montgomeryshire CanalTransportunder 1 mi
- Buttington LimekilnsIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Gungrog FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- No2 Gungrog HallDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.