Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Abercrombie House (Post Office and Stores)
Guilsfield, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 11 March 1981
- Locality
- Guilsfield
- Community
- Guilsfield
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.69672, -3.15597
- Cadw reference
- 7888
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
Located at the centre of the village.
Exterior
A timber framed house, C17 and early C19 faced with colourwashed brickwork on the main S elevation. Two storeys, 3 bays, the centre bay wider, and two external stacks to the rear serving the end bays, one stack now reduced in height. The S elevation has a central 6-panelled door within a trellis porch, and on the ground floor two-centred half-brick arched windows in Trawscoed estate style, the upper floor windows of 2-light metal frames. Brick dentilled eaves.
The house is extended to the rear by a link into a 2-bay brick building with gable stack, roofed at right angles, and the gable end is further extended to the road frontage by a C20 addition (not included), containing the post office. A lean-to along the rear joins the brick building.
Reason for designation
Of interest as having a facade of distinctive local style, and the earlier rear structure being unusual in having external stacks to the end bays.
Nearby in the register
- Trawscoed CottageDomesticunder 1 mi
- Public Water FountainGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Trawscoed HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- White Ash (Nos 1 and 2 Onnen Wen/White Ash)Domesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.