Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Dolau House (including forecourt railings and gate)
Llanfihangel Rhydithon, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Dolau, Llanfihangel Rhydithon, Powys, designated on 17 June 1993.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 17 June 1993
- Locality
- Dolau
- Community
- Llanfihangel Rhydithon
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.29530, -3.26246
- Cadw reference
- 9282
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
Lies 30m south-east of the Mid-Wales Railway line opposite Dolau Station.
History
Built mid-1860s by Thomas Watkins, local Quaker and benefactor. Watkins intended it to be a public house for the railway workers who were constructing the Mid-Wales line through Dolau, but these plans were dropped after objections from his Quaker Meeting; he eventually went to live there himself in retirement.
Exterior
Two storeys with attic rooms lit from gable end windows. Red brick, blue brick dressings, yellow brick voussoir window heads. Slate roof, boxed eaves, deep verges, two brick end stacks. Three-window front, all twelve-pane sashes without horns. pen-fronted, central gabled porch, modern glazed door.
Reason for designation
Prominent and unaltered village house of distinctive Victorian character. Group value with Dolau Baptist Chapel.
Nearby in the register
- Milestone in grass verge close to junction with lane to CraffrynTransportunder 1 mi
- CraffrynDomesticunder 1 mi
- Outbuilding immediately to SW of CraffrynDomesticunder 1 mi
- Barn/Cowhouse Range to CraffrynAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.