Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Mount Pleasant
Llangunllo, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Fishpools, Llangunllo, Powys, designated on 30 June 1992.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 30 June 1992
- Locality
- Fishpools
- Community
- Llangunllo
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.30718, -3.18471
- Cadw reference
- 9125
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 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1637 · Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 180 Knighton (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Elevated position above north side of A488 1.5 km west of Bleddfa village.
Exterior
Early to mid C19 cottage pair consisting of double fronted house to left and house to right with single window front and rear wing under catslide roof. Two storeys, painted coursed rubble stone, slate roof, brick end stacks.
Four-panel doors; porches of thin planks with decorative gables. Irregular windows under flat lintels, all small-paned timber casements. Both houses have later corrugated tin extensions at the gable ends.
Reason for designation
A well-preserved example of a small regional house type.
Nearby in the register
- Surveying Tower in Forest near FishpoolsWater Supply and Drainageunder 1 mi
- L-Plan range of outbuildings at Dolassey FarmAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Church of St. Mary MagdaleneReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Bleddfa Old RectoryReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.