Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Old Police Cottage
Glasbury, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Glasbury, Powys, designated on 18 January 1996.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 18 January 1996
- Locality
- Glasbury
- Community
- Glasbury
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.04427, -3.20278
- Cadw reference
- 17176
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 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1637 · Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1856 · 42. Brecon. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1896 · 214 Talgarth (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Located at the SW corner of the Green, behind a front stone and brick wall.
Exterior
Cottage of the early-mid C19. Roughcast and colourwashed, with slate roof. One storey and attic, three bays, symmetrical but extended to the SW beyond the original gable stack by a further bay. Door enclosed within a gabled glazed porch, set slightly off-centre. Two light paned timber windows to the ground floor, and 3 larger windows with 2-centred heads to attic floor within three gables. Decorative ridge crestings. Gable brick stacks with offsetting heads.
Interior
Not accessible at time of inspection (July 1995).
Reason for designation
Included for group value with neighbouring listed buildings around the triangular green in the centre of Glasbury.
Nearby in the register
- Green CottagesDomesticunder 1 mi
- Green CottagesDomesticunder 1 mi
- Parc GwynneDomesticunder 1 mi
- Green CottagesDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.