Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
5 Castle Street
Llanidloes, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Llanidloes, Powys, designated on 12 November 2003.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 12 November 2003
- Locality
- Llanidloes
- Community
- Llanidloes
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.44941, -3.54171
- Cadw reference
- 82062
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1637 · Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 164 Llanidloes (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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.
Nearby in the register
- Courtyard Wall and Outbuildings to:-Domesticunder 1 mi
- Sion United Reformed ChurchReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Castle HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Short BridgeTransportunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.