Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Burdett House
Montgomery, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Montgomery, Powys, designated on 16 December 2005.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 16 December 2005
- Town
- Montgomery
- Community
- Montgomery
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.55926, -3.14728
- Cadw reference
- 87232
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 1637 map "Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1637 · Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 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)
- 1899 · 165 Montgomery (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Situated backing onto S end of No 4 Burdett Row,at right-angles to road, at S edge of the town.
History
House probably earlier C19 raised on high basement. It was possibly the private school run by the father of the architect J.W. Poundley in the earlier C19, but seems to have been associated with the tannery that stood behind until 1966. On the 1833 map this house and Burdett Row are marked as owned by David Lloyd, and in the schedule to the 1839 tithe map it is listed as house with skinyard owned by David Lloyd, occupied by Richard Rees.
Exterior
House, painted brick with slate roof and nogged brick eaves. Left end brick stack and rear wall stack to right. High basement and two storeys, three bays with sash windows with gauged brick heads and stone sills. Top floor has square 6-pane sashes, the right one a painted dummy window. Ground floor 12-pane sash each side of door opening onto high stone platform reached by flight of stone steps up from right, with iron railings and iron baluster newel. Half-glazed door in plain C20 porch of two wooden posts and flat top. Panelled flush reveals. Basement 12-pane sash to left. Modern lean-to on left end. Right end, to road, has first floor large 12-pane sash over long timber canted oriel of 4-8-4 panes with hipped slate roof, over basement cambered-headed window with triple casement and iron opening light.
Interior
Interior not inspected.
Reason for designation
Included as a smaller late Georgian house with good consistent detail, prominently sited at the approach to the town.
Nearby in the register
- Garden walls and outbuilding to Plas GwynDomesticunder 1 mi
- Plas GwynDomesticunder 1 mi
- Brynwylfa inclding outbuilding to rearDomesticunder 1 mi
- Myrtle HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.