Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Quarryworkers Cottages at Aberclydach
Talybont-on-Usk, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 20 January 1998
- Locality
- Aberclydach
- Town
- Talybont
- Community
- Talybont-on-Usk
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.88351, -3.30488
- Cadw reference
- 19235
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 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
On the W side of the hamlet of Aberclydach in Cwm Clydach, built into the steep S bank and almost opposite the chapel.
History
Probably early C19, when the main valley road and pass through the mountains to Pontsticill appears to have been developed, most of the bridges dating from this period; this probably associated with the construction of the Brecknock and Abergavenny canal, reaching Talybont around 1800, and the need for a link between this and the industrial valleys to south. Built as a terrace of 4 quarryworkers' cottages, unmodernised and uninhabited since 1950s.
Exterior
Plan is a version of dual row industrial housing, with two cottages entered at higher level to front on top of two cottages entered at ground floor level to rear, thus creating a tall and narrow building. Built of stone rubble formerly limewashed, now with corrugated roof with centre ridge and end stack, each presumably shared by two cottages on the vertical axis. To rear are the two lower cottage doorways with planked doors flanked by windows; above are small windows to ground floor, and very small windows to the first. Fronting lane similarly, two doors flanked by windows with small first floor openings, some blocked.
Reason for designation
Listed for their exceptional interest as a scarce surviving example of unaltered rural industrial housing of early C19.
Nearby in the register
- Chapel at Aberclydach and surrounding cemetery wallReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Group of 7 chest tombs in Aberclydach chapel cemeteryCommemorativeunder 1 mi
- Aber BridgeTransportunder 1 mi
- Tyle ClydachDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.