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
16215
Building Number
5  
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
31/07/1995  
Date of Amendment
31/07/1995  
Name of Property
No 5  
Address
5 Elan Village  

Location


Unitary Authority
Powys  
Community
Rhayader  
Town
 
Locality
 
Easting
293360  
Northing
265071  
Street Side
 
Location
To L of No 3, to NE of small stone bridge.  

Description


Broad Class
Domestic  
Period
 

History
Pair of semi-detached houses 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 pair of semi-detached houses. Brown rubble with bathstone dressings, slate roof. Mullioned windows (casements renewed). Three stone chimneys. Each house has advanced cross gable to end, with 3-light window to first floor; R house has 2-light window to ground floor, L house has splayed bay window, 3-lights to front. Between gables, each house has small hipped dormer, and 2-light ground floor window (grouped as pair). In angle with cross gable each house has porch has hipped slate roof.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
High quality early C20 Arts & Crafts pair of houses, forming part of group of Garden Village buildings in Elan Village. Group value.  

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