Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Glenfern
Llanfair Caereinion, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 1 April 1996
- Locality
- Llanfair Caereinion
- Community
- Llanfair Caereinion
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.64865, -3.32478
- Cadw reference
- 17405
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1795 "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).
Cadw's description
Location
A pair of houses located on the E side of Bridge Street towards its southern end.
Exterior
History: Built as a pair of houses c 1850 .
Exterior: A pair of houses, 3 storeys with cellars, each a single window range. North house: Slate roof covering, red brickwork in Flemish bond, recently repointed, built up from stone plinth. South house: Corrugated asbestos roof covering, front elevation modern roughcast rendered and painted, stone plinth retained. Front elevation: Second storey: two windows under eaves, 12-pane sash window to S, and modern, single light window to N. 1st storey: two 16-pane sash windows under flat arch with tumbled brickwork painted white, N house, but rendered over, S house. Ground floor: two 16-pane sash windows, as 1st floor. Door frames with plain pilasters, flat door heads on heavy, decorated consoles. Panelled reveals. South house has 6-panelled door with 4-pane overlight but northern house has a modern panelled, half lit door, with a 4-pane overlight. Two stone steps up to door of Brynllys. Hatches to cellars.
Interior: Not accessible at time of inspection.
Listed for townscape and group value and as retaining much of their late Georgian character.
Reference: W.T.R. Pryce, The Photographer in Rural Wales, 1991, p78.
Nearby in the register
- BrynllysDomesticunder 1 mi
- Victoria House (now N.F.U. Mutual Office)Commercialunder 1 mi
- Old Bank House (Deri Dental Practice)Domesticunder 1 mi
- Old Bank House (House to the North )Domesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.