5 Castle Street

Cadw's description

Location

At the north end of Castle Street, backing onto Penygraig Street. The house faces onto a small yard, tightly confined by the plot boundary that runs on the east side of Castle Street, to the rear of 22 Short Bridge Street.

History

The house appears to be timber-framed, but possibly built in two phases, with the roof raised and the house refenestrated in the late C18 or early C19. It is an apparent relic of early 'back-land' development, of infill behind the main streets of the town, probably associated with the expansion of Llanidloes as a textile town.

Exterior

Small house; 2 storeyed, 2-window range, a lobby entry against single gable end stack. Roughcast render over probable timber frame, with the weather-boarded which are a characteristic of other timber-framed buildings in the town. Slate roof with pronounced eaves overhang, brick gable end stack and wide gable at rear. Main façade has doorway to left, a boarded door with simple hood over, and 2 windows on each floor: these are small paned iron-framed casements. Rear obscured by later lean-to additions. Cobbled yard to front and rear.

Interior

Not inspected, but said to comprise single heated living room with chimney stair, and two small service.

Reason for designation

Listed as a surviving example of pre-1840 urban infill development, and as retaining good traditional character as a simple urban vernacular house.