Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Lewis House
Newtown and Llanllwchaiarn, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 9 May 1988
- Locality
- Penygloddfa
- Community
- Newtown and Llanllwchaiarn
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.51791, -3.31713
- Cadw reference
- 8067
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 1637 "Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
On the street line where The Crescent merges into Commercial Street.
History
Early C19.
Exterior
3 storey and cellar, polygonal stuccoed front. Plastered plinth. Entrance on splayed corner with flanking one window bays, concave to left. Hipped slate roof, pitch daubed with lead ridge. Plain eaves. Shallow 8 pane sashes to 2nd floor. 16 pane sashes to 1st floor, sill band. Blind wall over corner. Ground floor has modern window to Commercial Street and unsympathetic modern window to The Crescent. Plain reveals, stone sills. Cellar openings below. Stone steps lead to Gothick porch. Raised fielded panels to sides and architraves. Roll moulded jambs with tripartite cusped doorhead with pierced quatrefoil to spandrels. Ogee lead roof on moulded cornice. Trefoils to panelled interior with bench seats. Modern door.
Reason for designation
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- 3 The CrescentDomesticunder 1 mi
- 2 The CrescentDomesticunder 1 mi
- Grapes HotelCommercialunder 1 mi
- 1 The CrescentDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.