Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Ivy House
Trewern, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 4 October 1989
- Locality
- Middletown
- Community
- Trewern
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.70625, -3.03429
- Cadw reference
- 8688
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
Set back from the main Shrewsbury to Welshpool road in enclosed garden.
History
Early to mid C19.
Exterior
2-storey, 3-window late-Georgian symmetrical facade with pebbledash finish and exposed chamfered brick dressings to windows. Slate roof with wide eaves and scalloped bargeboards; gable end brick stacks with cornice bands. 16-pane sash windows in painted reveals with painted sills. Central trellised timber porch with fluted iron columns; 6-panelled door with raised fields, reeded architrave and margin glazed fanlight.
Largely cobbled courtyard to rear with flanking outbuildings dated 1840.
Reason for designation
Listed as a well-proportioned and unaltered house of one period.
Nearby in the register
- Cefn y CastellHillfortunder 1 mi
- Camp & Fields on New Pieces, Breiddin HillEnclosure1 mi
- Breidden Hill CampHillfort1 mi
- Admiral Rodney's PillarCommemorative1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.