Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Lock Cottage
Welshpool, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Pool Quay, Welshpool, Powys, designated on 29 February 1996.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 29 February 1996
- Locality
- Pool Quay
- Community
- Welshpool
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.69699, -3.10213
- Cadw reference
- 16771
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
Alongside Top lock on the Montgomeryshire Canal, to the rear of Manor House and Little Bank Farm.
Exterior
History: The cottage was built between 1819 and 1821 by the Eastern Branch of the Montgomeryshire Canal, and further extended in the early C19.
Exterior: Painted brick with dentilled eaves band and slate roof: gable end stacks. 2 storeys, 2-unit plan, with central doorway in shallow gabled timber porch facing the lock. Single 2-light casement window over the doorway, but otherwise no windows on this elevation. Small-paned casement windows alongside the gable end stacks, and in E facing elevation, with plain timber lintels. The single storeyed extension to the N is a C20 remodelling of an earlier addition.
Listed as a well-preserved surviving example of an early Montgomeryshire Canal Lock-keeper's house, and part of a group of canal-structures at Pool Quay.
Reference: Stephen Hughes, The Archaeology of the Montgomeryshire Canal, 1988, pp.97-8
Nearby in the register
- Top LockTransportunder 1 mi
- Bridge 111 over the Montgomeryshire CanalTransportunder 1 mi
- Ivy House with outbuildingsDomesticunder 1 mi
- Manor HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.