Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Elenydd including railings to forecourt
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
- Locality
- Welshpool
- Community
- Welshpool
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.66058, -3.15205
- Cadw reference
- 7815
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesLlyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales
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
Immediately W of the access to Mount Close.
Exterior
History: Largely the early C19 remodelling of an earlier building, with some later C19 modifications.
Exterior: Painted brick with slate roof with red tiled cresting and gable end stacks; stone to rear wall. 2 storeys, 2-unit plan with central entrance: renewed doorway in reeded architrave with long console brackets to entablature hood. Flanking windows are 12-pane sashes to ground floor, and long 15-pane sashes to first floor. Plain eaves band.
Cast iron railings enclose a small forecourt: enriched fleur-de-lis finials to railings and principle posts, with similar gate.
A well-preserved example of an early C19 small town house.
Nearby in the register
- Old BeamsDomesticunder 1 mi
- 6 Mount StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 1 Mount StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 19 High StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.