Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Greenhill Villas
Crickhowell, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 25 September 1986
- Community
- Crickhowell
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.85656, -3.13415
- Cadw reference
- 7194
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 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Situated on SE edge of the town beyond the Recreation Ground; No 1 set back behind iron-railed and rubble-walled front garden.
History
Pair of early C19 (shown on 1840 Tithe Map)
Exterior
Georgian fronts, possibly with earlier fabric to No 2, 3 storeys to No 1, 2 storeys to No 2; part coursed rubble to No 1, pebbledash to No 2. Slate roofs, narrow eaves, cement rendered rubble and brick chimney stacks, with weathercourses; proportion- ately large roof to No 2. Small-pane sash windows of various types, except to No 1 2nd floor; brick lintels to No 1 first floor and stone voussoir lintels to ground floor, all slightly cambered; 3-light sashes to No 2 1st floor and ground floor right with large 25-pane sash to left. Central open-pedimented doorcases to both, the former has been lowered; fluted pilasters to No 1, reeded to No 2. 6-panel doors and 4-pane fanlights.
Rubble end wall to No 1 with sash windows and lower lean-to range at rear.
Uneven rubble end wall to No 2 formerly with another building adjoining (shown in view of 1900).
Nearby in the register
- Greenhill VillasDomesticunder 1 mi
- Gazebo and adjoining rubble wall on Cwrt Newydd roadGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Gwar-y-CastellCommercialunder 1 mi
- National Westminster BankCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.