Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Rainbow Cottage including shop on right
New Radnor, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 29 April 1993
- Community
- New Radnor
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.24069, -3.15524
- Cadw reference
- 9226
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 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Forward to the street with right-hand bay set back slightly.
Exterior
Probably early to mid C19, two storeys, painted rubble stone, slate roof, rubble end stacks with oversailing courses. Central front door, flush panels, small overlight under cambered head. Regular arrangement of window openings with flat voussoir heads, all two or three-light iron casements in chamfered timber-frames with original catches and stays. To rear is pitch-roofed extension of 1951 in brick.
Adjoining to right is former bakers premises, now hairdressers; one-and-a-half storeys, painted rubble, slate roof, wide cambered roof over glazed door and shop window.
Reason for designation
Prominent building of traditional character on narrow part of High Street.
Nearby in the register
- Outbuilding 10m to W.of No.15 (Rainbow Cottage)Domesticunder 1 mi
- Telephone Call-box to rear of pavement to left of No.6 (Post Office) High StreetCommunicationsunder 1 mi
- The CrossDomesticunder 1 mi
- The ForgeIndustrialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.