Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Elenydd including railings to forecourt
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
- 52.66058, -3.15205
- Cadw reference
- 7815
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
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.