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
16206
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
31/07/1995  
Date of Amendment
31/07/1995  
Name of Property
Elan Valley Lodge  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Powys  
Community
Rhayader  
Town
 
Locality
Elan Village  
Easting
293271  
Northing
264909  
Street Side
 
Location
Above main village street, towards NW end of village.  

Description


Broad Class
Domestic  
Period
 

History
Former school built by City of Birmingham for education of children of the village built for maintenance workers at Elan Valley reservoir scheme. Designed between 1906 and 1909 by Buckland, Haywood, & Farmer, architects, of Birmingham.  

Exterior
Arts & Crafts style. Brown rubble with bathstone dressings, slate roof. Mullioned windows. Main block has louvred ventilator with pyramidal roof and pinnacle. Roof half-hipped (3-light mullioned windows to ends) and sweeps down at sides over 3-light windows; between these, 3 tall gables with large mullioned and transomed windows. To L, lower block with gable to front; to R, single storey blocks. Rear has 3 large gables with tall windows. To R of main block is tower with saddleback roof; to front, louvred camber-headed opening with bathstone panel below with shield, to sides 3-light louvred openings.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
Included as striking example of building type, forming part of group of early C20 Arts & Crafts buildings in Elan Village. Group value.  

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