Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Oldford House
Welshpool, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Welshpool, Powys, designated on 11 March 1981.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 11 March 1981
- Town
- Welshpool
- Community
- Welshpool
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.65800, -3.14769
- Cadw reference
- 7759
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 1795 map "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).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1795 · To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most… (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 151 Welshpool (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1916 · Sheet 60. Shrewsbury. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Set back from the road alongside the former grammar school.
History
Built c1830.
Exterior
Main elevation is brick, with local granite rubble exposed in gables. Slate roof with end wall stacks. 2 storeys, 3 window range, with central entrance. 6-panelled door with overlight in moulded architrave with entablature hood flanked by 16-pane sash windows with flat-arched heads. Similar windows to first floor, the central windows space blind. Dentilled eaves band.
Reason for designation
Included as a good example of a small early C19 town house retaining much of its original character, and forming a group with the former grammar school alongside it.
Nearby in the register
- Former Grammar SchoolInstitutionalunder 1 mi
- Oldford CottageDomesticunder 1 mi
- 18 Berriew StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- 19 Berriew StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.