Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Reading Room
Kerry, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Kerry, Newtown, Powys, designated on 12 September 1996.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Recreational
- Date of designation
- 12 September 1996
- Locality
- Kerry
- Town
- Newtown
- Community
- Kerry
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.50179, -3.25583
- Cadw reference
- 17281
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 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1637 · Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 165 Montgomery (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Located on high ground, at the E approach to Kerry village.
History
Built 1856 for John Naylor of Brynllywarch and Leighton Hall, to provide a reading room and community centre together with a dwelling, later the police station, for the village 'and adjoining district'. The architect was probably J.W.Poundley. It became the Roman Catholic church of St. Michael and St Brendan to serve the community of Italian prisoners-of-war, and was converted to a private house c1980.
Exterior
Rock-faced ashlar with freestone dressings. Slate roofs. Central gable with 3 tall lancets to the upper floor, 2 doors with Caernarfon heads and overlights placed symmetrically either side of a window on the ground floor, each with a gothic gabled canopy set on terracotta figured corbels. Spherical triangular vent in gable. Wings to each side; to left, the former police house, of 2 bays with windows in ashlar- quoined frames, flat label hood and brackets, and part-raised dormers to upper floor. The first of the 2 bays to right (N) is similar, the second has a large loop vent and JN monogram on a flush shield over. Yellow pots on gable stacks. Rear extension on the S wing. To the rear of the gabled front, a 2-storey brick extension with applied timber framing.
Reason for designation
Included as a prominent village landmark, balancing the school, at the entrance to Kerry, and an unusual example of the munificence of a large estate.
Nearby in the register
- County Primary SchoolEducationunder 1 mi
- Morris monument in churchyard, Church of St MichaelCommemorativeunder 1 mi
- The Herbert ArmsCommercialunder 1 mi
- Church of St Michael and All AngelsReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.