Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
The Holmes
Llanyre, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Doldowlod, Llanyre, Powys, designated on 15 November 2004.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- No class recorded
- Date of designation
- 15 November 2004
- Locality
- Doldowlod
- Community
- Llanyre
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.24037, -3.45422
- Cadw reference
- 83238
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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)
- 1898 · 179 Rhyader (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Approximately 3.1km NNW of Newbridge-on-Wye, reached by private road on the W side of the A470.
History
Doldowlod was purchased by the engineer James Watt of Soho, Birmingham, in 1803, and was developed as a country residence by his son James Watt junior (1769-1848). The Watt family gradually acquired a substantial country estate that continued to expand up to the time of James Watt Gibson-Watt (1831-91). The Holmes was probably built in the 1830s and is shown on the 1840 Tithe map.
Exterior
A 1½-storey cottage of squared rubble stone, random rubble sides and rear with bigger quoins, and tooled dressings, steep slate roof with wavy barge boards and stone end stacks. The symmetrical 3-bay front has a central entrance in an advanced gabled bay. It has replacement double-panelled doors and 2-pane overlight in a chamfered surround, and 2-light casement above. The outer bays have 3-light wooden mullioned-and-transomed windows under flat arches. Added lean-tos are set back on both sides. The L-hand has a blocked camber-headed doorway with inserted 2-light casement. The R-hand has a similar doorway with boarded door. The 2-window gable ends have replacement metal-framed attic windows under wooden lintels. The lean-tos have a similar window and a doorway, blocked to the R-hand, and with boarded door to the L-hand. The 3-window rear small-pane wooden cross windows under cambered heads, and a central gabled dormer with 2-light small-pane casement window.
Interior
Not inspected.
Reason for designation
Listed for its special architectural interest as a well-detailed C19 estate cottage of definite quality retaining original character and detail.
Nearby in the register
- The Green, including attached former sawmill and farm buildingsNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Road bridge over Cwm Trafle SE of Tycwtta FarmTransportunder 1 mi
- Prest-dabuan barn with attached cow houseAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Bridge over Cwm Trafle S of Prest-dabuan barnTransportunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.