Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
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Caersws, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Caersws, Powys, designated on 5 November 1996.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 5 November 1996
- Locality
- Caersws
- Community
- Caersws
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.51538, -3.42967
- Cadw reference
- 17550
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 · 164 Llanidloes (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Located at the end of Market Lane, beyond the cattle market, on the bank of the wider River Severn before its width was restricted by bunds.
History
A Regency style estate house, built in the mid C19, possibly for the Williams-Wynne estate. It supercedes a small building shown on the Tithe Map of 1847.
Exterior
Ashlar stone with a slate roof. Two storeys and attic, 3 bays, comprising two forward gabled wings with plat band, each with 30-pane sashes, 20-pane to first floor, and radial window to attic level. Deep eaves and bargeboards. Between the wings, a narrower recessed bay wqith a pair of part-glazed doors on the ground floor, and 16-pane sashes to the first floor. All windows have stone lintels. Stacks built of local red brick on the rear slope of the roof, placed symmetrically. The left wing extends to the rear, and has an attached lower 2-storey service wing, with a dormered attic on its outer, W, side. The rear of the building is painted, and has an added glazed porch over the main entrance at the back of the main range.
Interior
Not accessible at the time of inspection (May 1996).
Reason for designation
Included as a well-preserved distinctively designed example of a mid C19 villa, which has retained much of its original exterior detail.
Nearby in the register
- Caersws Roman Fort and Vicus: section in southern part of vicusVicusunder 1 mi
- Caersws Roman Fort: Section of South Western DefencesFortunder 1 mi
- Caersws bridgeTransportunder 1 mi
- Caersws Roman Fort and Vicus: section in SE part of vicusVicusunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.