Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
No 7 Sarn-y-bryn-caled Cottages
Welshpool, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 11 March 1981
- Locality
- Sarn-y-bryn-caled
- Community
- Welshpool
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.63793, -3.15469
- Cadw reference
- 7753
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 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
The cottages are on the old line of the Welshpool-Newtown Road, cut-off by the Welshpool by-pass and now a by-road leading to the canal at Belan Lock
Exterior
History: The cottages form part of a small settlement, developed by the Powis Estate to house its agricultural workers, between c1830 and 1881. This pair was built between 1861 and 1871.
Description: Coursed and squared snecked local sandstone to main front, the rest brick; graded slate roof with axial brick stack. 2 storeys, each a single unit plan with shared rear wing. Paired central doorways - battened plank doors in simple shallow timber porches (No 7 retains the original, with decorative panelling to architrave). Flanking windows are iron small-paned casements, with flat arched voussoir heads to ground floor.
Part of a group of model cottages forming an excellent example of a small estate settlement which retains much of its original character.
Reference: Stephen Hughes, The Archaeology of the Montgomeryshire Canal, 1988, p.92.
Nearby in the register
- No 8 Sarn-y-bryn-caled CottagesDomesticunder 1 mi
- No 6 Sarn-y-bryn-caled CottagesDomesticunder 1 mi
- No 5 Sarn-y-bryn-caled CottagesDomesticunder 1 mi
- No 4 Sarn-y-bryn-caled CottagesDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.