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including attached Wall Flanking Drive

Machynlleth, Powys, Wales

A Grade II listed building in Machynlleth, Powys, designated on 19 November 1990.

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1913) covering the location of including attached Wall Flanking Drive, Machynlleth, Powys, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1913), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Designation
Listed building, Grade II
Broad class
Domestic
Date of designation
19 November 1990
Community
Machynlleth
Unitary authority
Powys
Country
Wales
Coordinates
52.59059, -3.84948
Cadw reference
8450

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1795 map "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).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1795 · To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most… (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales)
  • 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1899 · 149 Barmouth (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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Cadw's description

Location

Midway along the street at the western side of the northern entrance to the drive to Plas Machynlleth.

History

Built with No 64 as a lodge by the Londonderry family in mid Cl9 probably contemporary with the rebuilding of the Plas in l853.

Exterior

Tudorbethan style; 2-storey; larger than the eastern lodge with which it forms a pair. Coursed rubble, slate roof and blue brick chimney stacks; lozenge and diamond panelled glazed windows with stone mullions. Stepped 2-window front elevation, rendered to the set back part to right; gable parapet and broad stepped kneelers. Shallow projection to centre crenellated to top with cornice; 2-light window with returned label over splayed bay. Similar lst floor window to right over panelled and boarded door with label. Slate hung gable end and some modern alterations to cross range. 3-window side elevation facing the drive with advanced and gabled central bay flanked on the ground floor by 3-light windows; otherwise 2-light.
Stepped back is a rubble wall that borders the drive and the side of the Library; runs back (S) for approximately 20 metres to the corner.

Reason for designation

Group value with No 64, the gates and gate piers and listed items opposite.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Designated Historic Asset GIS Data, The Welsh Historic Environment Service (Cadw), 2026-09-07, licensed under the Open Government Licence http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/ Cadw, the Welsh Historic Environment Service · Open Government Licence v3.0
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