Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Lodge to Maescelyn
Crickhowell, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 25 September 1986
- Locality
- Maescelyn
- Community
- Crickhowell
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.86910, -3.15712
- Cadw reference
- 7273
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 to NW of the town at the bottom of the drive to Maescelyn House; facing S. beside the pyramidal capped gate piers.
History
Dated 1887, probably also by J L Pearson and similar although less ambitious to that by him at Fairstead, Essex (1889).
Exterior
2-storey black and white gabled square lodge; half-timbered first floor jettied over entrance, glazed brick ground floor. Tiled roof, central stellar brick chimney stack; over hanging eaves with advanced ornamental bargeboards to gables. Splayed oriel to front diamond leaded casement windows. Recessed entrance to SW angle with foliage ornamented timbers; plaque within reads: "RTW 1887" in reference to R.Townley Woodman, the patron/owner.
Reason for designation
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- Maescelyn HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Stables & Former Coach-House at MaescelynDomesticunder 1 mi
- Maes-Celyn Castle MoundMotteunder 1 mi
- Llanfair FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.