Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
No 1 Timber-yard Cottages
Welshpool, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Powis Estate Timberyard, Welshpool, Powys, designated on 29 February 1996.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 29 February 1996
- Locality
- Powis Estate Timberyard
- Community
- Welshpool
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.64557, -3.15170
- Cadw reference
- 16800
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 the road 1.6km approx S of Welshpool.
Exterior
History: Built as a pair of cottages of unequal size, c1830- 40. No 1 was extended c1880 with the wide gabled range to the right.
Exterior: Original range is rough random local rubble; the later gable is roughly coursed and squared local stone, with dressed quoins; slate roofs with brick star-shaped axial and side wall stacks. Together the two cottages form a picturesque composition, using simplified Tudor-gothic detail. Main range is one and a half storeyed, symmetrically arranged as a 2-unit plan with central baffle entrance, though internally divided with the left-hand unit comprising No 2, the right hand unit forming part of No 1. Gabled porch (the entrance to No 2) with 4-centred voussoir arch. Flanking 2-light mullioned and transomed iron windows with small panes, and drop-ended hood moulds. Similar 2-light casement windows beneath dormer gables with wide bargeboards with finials above. No 1 has similar porch in centre of gable, flanked by narrow single light small-paned windows (renewed or inserted), and a similar 2-light mullioned and transomed window above, with drop-ended hood mould. Wide barge-boards to gable, with finial.
Good examples of estate cottage architecture, which form part of an important group of buildings at the Powis Estate Timber Yard.
Reference: Stephen Hughes, The Archaeology of the Montgomeryshire Canal, 1988, pp.90-92.
Nearby in the register
- No 2 Timber-yard CottagesDomesticunder 1 mi
- Blacksmith's shop, office and stores at Powis Estate Timber Yard, with boundary wall to yard.Industrialunder 1 mi
- Wagon shed, cement store and boundary wall to timber yardIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Powis Estate Sawmill with cast-iron launderIndustrialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.