Full Report for Listed Buildings


The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.

Summary Description


Reference Number
7264
Building Number
 
Grade
II*  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
19/07/1963  
Date of Amendment
25/09/1986  
Name of Property
Ivy Towers  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Powys  
Community
Crickhowell  
Town
 
Locality
 
Easting
321758  
Northing
218345  
Street Side
 
Location
Set back from the road behind front garden with gable end to High Street beside the Dragon Hotel; part of a specially good group of early Georgian buildings along with the Dragon Hotel and Latham House.  

Description


Broad Class
Domestic  
Period
 

History
Dated 1719. Formerly an Academy for the Daughters of the Gentry, one time War Memorial Hospital and later Youth Hostel.  

Exterior
Fine 2-storey and attic 5-window stucco front; steep slate roof, brick end chimney stacks, boxed eaves and deep dentilled cornice. Central pedimented cross gable with similar cornice; semicircular 5-pane attic window. 12-pane sash windows with flush frames to ground and first floors with stepped voussoir lintels, keystones, with dripstones and lugged architraves. Central pedimented doorcase with bracketed cornices and fluted Ionic pilasters, later half-glazed door. Rubble right end wall with advanced chimney breast and 2 sash windows with glazing bars to attic. Roughcast left end wall and rear. Disused at time of inspection (October 1985).  

Interior
Formerly contained contemporary interiors.  

Reason for designation
 

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