Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
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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