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
16211
Building Number
1
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
31/07/1995
Date of Amendment
31/07/1995
Name of Property
No 1
Address
1 Elan Village
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Rhayader
Town
Locality
Easting
293299
Northing
264968
Street Side
Location
Above village street, facing up hill towards former school.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Detached house built by City of Birmingham for maintenance workers at Elan Valley reservoir scheme. Designed between 1906 and 1909 by Buckland, Haywood, & Farmer, architects, of Birmingham.
Exterior
Arts & Crafts style detached house. Two storeys. Brown rubble with bathstone dressings, slate roof. Mullioned windows (casements renewed). Entrance front has slightly advanced central bay (with entrance doorway) which runs up as gabled dormer with 2-light window. Splayed bay window to each side. Left gabled end has first floor 3-light window, and ground floor 2-light window. Rear has block with 2 large gables, and tall chimney at angle between this and R gable end. Large chimney to far side.
To rear is detached outbuilding with hipped slate roof, and chimney.
Interior
Reason for designation
High quality early C20 Arts & Crafts house, forming part of group of Garden Village buildings in Elan Village.
Group value.
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