Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Former Salt Warehouse at Newbridge
Llandysilio, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 5 April 1993
- Locality
- Pentreheylin
- Community
- Llandysilio
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.76817, -3.10516
- Cadw reference
- 8538
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
On a meadow site close to the west bank of the Montgomeryshire Canal between Newbridge and Pentreheylin
History
Probably built by John Goolden of Maesbury Marsh in 1824 (or by JáJáTurner in 1831).
Exterior
Fine two-storey late Georgian design with rusticated stone quoins and coped gable parapets with moulded kneelers and corniced stacks. Rubble walls with brickwork eaves, slate roof. Two square upper openings with masonry surrounds and iron bars; similar outer ground floor openings with adjoining boarded doors. Remains of seating and timber support for loading crane at right hand angle. Segmental arched loading doors linked to ground floor opening in right gable end. Similar treatment to single storey rear elevation with high central loading door flanked by square, barred openings.
Reason for designation
Although in a deteriorating condition this is a fine masonry building, the best of the early warehouses associated with the canal. Very distinctive in the landscape as it stands in isolation.
Nearby in the register
- Pentreheylin Bridge (No.97) over The Montgomeryshire CanalTransportunder 1 mi
- Aqueduct carrying Montgomeryshire Canal over River VyrnwyWater Supply and Drainageunder 1 mi
- Bridge (No.98) over Montgomeryshire CanalTransportunder 1 mi
- Road Bridge over River VyrnwyTransportunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.