Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
1 Salop Road
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
- 52.66127, -3.14572
- Cadw reference
- 7826
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
On the E corner with Red Bank, adjoining the Powysland Museum, with the former library to its rear
Exterior
History: A cottage ornee of c1835-40, built on the site of an earlier toll house. The property was acquired, together with the adjacent site, by the Powysland club in 1873, with the intention that the house be used as keeper's accommodation for the Powysland Museum built alongside it.
Description: Single storeyed, 2-unit cottage with central entrance, articulated by pilasters at angles and flanking the entrance. Painted brick with plain tiled roof and axial brick stack. Gabled central porch with chamfered 4-centred archway, and similar arch to 4-panelled door within. Pierced bargeboards with pendant finial to steep gable over entrance. 3-light windows in chamfered architraves to either side. Roof is carried forward to either side of the porch to form a veranda, supported by octagonal timber posts with arched braces. Short wing to rear.
Railings to street are wrought iron, with spear finials. Similar central gate.
A very good example of a small cottage ornee, which is of additional interest as it forms part of the Powysland Museum.
References: Robert Owen, 'Welshpool Landmarks', Montgomeryshire Collections, Vol. 38, 1918, p182;
Ion Trant, The Changing Face of Welshpool, 1986, p.123;
Powysland Museum Trust Deed, Reference Collection, Newtown Library.
Nearby in the register
- Former Powysland Museum & LibraryEducationunder 1 mi
- Grace Evans CottageDomesticunder 1 mi
- 2 Church Bank.Domesticunder 1 mi
- 1 Church Bank.Domesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.