Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
L-Plan Service Range to Ivy Towers
Crickhowell, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Crickhowell, Powys, designated on 19 July 1963.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 19 July 1963
- Community
- Crickhowell
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.85811, -3.13734
- Cadw reference
- 7266
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 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1856 · 42. Brecon. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 232 Abergavenny (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 232 Abergavenny (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Set back from the road adjoining the Warden's Cottage to the left and Ivy Towers to the right.
History
Sub-medieval C17 former hall-house with earlier medieval origins associated with the Castle; C18 conversion to service range of Ivy Towers (dated 1719) and modern alterations to interior and glazing.
Exterior
Rubble walls, part whitewashed, part roughcast, steep pitched slate roofs, higher to NE/SW range, brick and rubble chimney stacks, 2 slate hung dormers to each arm with casement windows. Various window types to ground floor; boarded and half-glazed doors. Rubble end wall, brick rebuilding to right and roughcast to gabled rear.
In very poor condition at time of inspection (October 1985).
Interior
One upper cruck remains internally.
Reason for designation
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- The Ivy TowerDomesticunder 1 mi
- Ivy TowersDomesticunder 1 mi
- 3 Tower StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- The Dragon HotelCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.