Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Bro Dawel
Machynlleth, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 19 November 1990
- Community
- Machynlleth
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.59176, -3.84322
- Cadw reference
- 8496
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 1795 "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).
Cadw's description
Location
At the south-western end of the Garden Village. Set well back from the road on the eastern edge of the town.
History
Built l913 by Thomas Alwyn Lloyd for Lord Davies of Llandinam; a detached pair forming part of a Garden Village development.
Exterior
These houses are at the SW end set apart from the main U-shaped group. They are distinctive for the 3-sided front elevation - a plan form first used a few years earlier in the garden cities of Sir Raymond Unwin (eg Letchworth and Hampstead). The 2-storey elevation as a whole is symmetrical; rendered with steep slate roof, wide eaves and red brick chimney stacks. Small pane top hung casements of various widths, 4-light to the central (corner) section over the bay windows which have tall lean-to roofs. Either side of these are gabled porches with doors to the sides; single-light windows above and 3-light windows to extreme ends. Mostly 2-light windows to the rear; boarded door to corner and half glazed door to Bro Dawel; gabled outhouse to Iscoed.
Reason for designation
Group value with Nos 3 and 4.
Listed as an especially well preserved Welsh example of the early C20 Garden City Movement.
Nearby in the register
- IscoedDomesticunder 1 mi
- Y GorlanDomesticunder 1 mi
- CraigwenDomesticunder 1 mi
- Monument to the Owen family in Machynlleth CemeteryCommemorativeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.