Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
THe Red House
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
- 52.69709, -3.15777
- Cadw reference
- 7889
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 junction of School Road with Oak Lane, immediately NW of the churchyard of St. Aelhaiarn, and set beack behind its front forecourt wall.
History
c.1770.
Exterior
Red brick with a slate roof. Two storeys, attic and cellar, five window bays.
Central 6-panelled door with C20 radial fanlight under a semicircular hood carried on brackets. Three-flue stacks on raised and coped gable walls, the W wall rendered. Twelve-paned sashes to ground floor, the openings having segmental heads. Moulded timber eaves cornice. Three gabled dormers with lozenge pattern iron glazing and decorative barge boards meeting at spiked finials.
Front wall defining the house forecourt against the road is of garden wall bond, with a flush stone rounded copings. Entrance gate piers rebuilt.
Interior
Has through stair hall with panelled doors and a fine C18 staircase with turned balusters.
Reason for designation
A fine and well proportioned Georgian house in an important position within the village.
Nearby in the register
- Yew TreeDomesticunder 1 mi
- Churchyard Wall and Gates at Chruch of St AelhaiarnReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Cil HaulDomesticunder 1 mi
- Church of St Aelhaiarn including Outbuilding to W end of N Aisle and outbuilding on W side of PorchReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.