Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
The Dower House at Trelydan Hall
Welshpool, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 25 April 1950
- Locality
- Trelydan
- Community
- Welshpool
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.68763, -3.13995
- Cadw reference
- 7897
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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
At right angles to, and immediately NW of Trelydan Hall.
Exterior
History: Probably built c1700, and given a new SW front c1770 (the date on a bell). Thought originally to have been a superior outbuilding, it later became a dwelling, but was disused at time of inspection (May 1995).
Exterior: Brick with slate roof and crow-stepped gables. 2 storeys, 5-window range. SW front has slightly advanced central gable, housing doorway with fanlight in segmental archway, with 16-pane sash window above, and clock in gable apex. Flanking bays have 2x12-pane sash windows to ground floor, and 16-pane sashes above, all with cambered brick heads. Central wood bell-cupola. Rear elevation retains the earlier pattern of openings, the windows themselves renewed in original openings with single ring cambered heads.
A fine example of an early C18 building, elegantly refronted in the later C18. It forms part of a tight group, both architecturally and functionally, with the hall.
Reference: Richard Haslam, Powys, Buildings of Wales series, 1979, p.109.
Nearby in the register
- Trelydan HallDomesticunder 1 mi
- Garden Wall at Trelydan HallDomesticunder 1 mi
- Trelydan FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Lower Trelydan FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.