Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Oldford Cottage
Welshpool, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Welshpool, Powys, designated on 25 April 1950.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 25 April 1950
- Locality
- Welshpool
- Community
- Welshpool
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.65813, -3.14871
- Cadw reference
- 7825
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
Oldford Lane runs to the N of the Oldford Estate, leaving Berriew Road immediately S of the Gateway Supermarket. The cottage is sited on rising ground.
Exterior
History: Probably early C17, and said to have been the residence of the town-clerk in the C17, and subsequently used as a prison and a poor house.
Exterior: Timber framed with painted brick infil; slate roof with brick gable end stacks. Box-framed with regular square panels with some arch bracing. Queen post and cambered collar truss visible in gable end. 2-unit plan with doorway towards centre: a plank door with moulded canopy hood. Flanking windows are small-paned iron casements, with similar windows in gabled dormers above. To the left, an outbuilding extension is timber-framed to the rear, and brick (painted in imitation of timber framing) to the front elevation, with some rubble in gable end. It was probably built as an agricultural outbuilding, though now forms part of the house.
Listed as a good surviving example of a typical vernacular timber-framed cottage, unusual in the context of the town, and retaining much of its early character.
Reference: Ion Trant, The Changing Face of Welshpool, 1986, p.107.
Nearby in the register
- Oldford HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Former Grammar SchoolInstitutionalunder 1 mi
- Victoria HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- 18 Berriew StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.