Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Aqueduct Cottage
Welshpool, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 11 March 1981
- Locality
- Welshpool
- Community
- Welshpool
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.65913, -3.14410
- Cadw reference
- 7725
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1795 "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Cadw's description
Location
Set back from the road and at right angles to the canal, alongside the Lledan Brook and the aqueduct which carries the canal over it.
Exterior
History: The house was built as part of a second phase of development of the Montgomeryshire Canal wharf in the early C19, and was in use as the canal agent's house by the mid C19.
Description: Brick with rubble in gable walls and to rear; slate roof and gable end stacks. One and a half storeys, 2-unit plan with central entrance. Doorway in timber gabled porch with dentilled bargeboards and trellised sides, flanked by iron casements with transoms and small panes, with flat arched brick heads to ground floor, and similar casement windows in gabled dormers above. Built into the bank of the Lledan Brook, the cottage is 3 storeyed to the rear, and has similar iron small paned casement windows.
An excellent example of a canal-side house which retains much of its original character and detail. It forms a key part in a group of related structures associated with the major canal wharf at Welshpool.
Reference: Stephen Hughes, The Archaeology of the Montgomeryshire Canal, 1988, p.124.
Nearby in the register
- Lledan Brook Aqueduct and WeirTransportunder 1 mi
- Former Railway Bridge over Montgomeryshire CanalTransportunder 1 mi
- Former Canal WarehouseCommercialunder 1 mi
- Clive PlaceDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.