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Llanfyllin, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Llanfyllin, Powys, designated on 22 March 1993.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 22 March 1993
- Community
- Llanfyllin
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.76590, -3.27208
- Cadw reference
- 8601
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1897 · 137 Oswestry (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1916 · Sheet 60. Shrewsbury. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
To R of Globe House.
History
Origins as C16 hall house with three-gabled front probably added in C18.
Exterior
Two storeys; three gables facing road with main range parallel to road. Local brick front (painted), slate roof, yellow brick chimney set forward of ridge. Each gable has, on upper floor, camber-headed small pane casement window. On ground floor, to L, broad tripartite casement window with cambered head, to R of this, entrance doorway with doorcase with steeply-pitched triangular pediment with finial. To R of doorway, broad tripartite casement window with cambered head, to R of this, small casement window with cambered head. To R, doorway with cambered head. Single casement window above cart entrance (R) which has exposed beams. To rear, long range at right angles in brick.
Interior
Bar in central gable has exposed chamfered beams and joists. Room in R gable (rebuilding at time of inspection) has similar fragments.
Reason for designation
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- Globe HouseCommercialunder 1 mi
- 5 PenybrynDomesticunder 1 mi
- TrewenDomesticunder 1 mi
- Eagle CafeCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.