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
16801
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
29/02/1996
Date of Amendment
29/02/1996
Name of Property
No 2 Timber-yard Cottages
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Welshpool
Town
Locality
Powis Estate Timberyard
Easting
322171
Northing
305932
Street Side
Location
Alongside the road 1.6km approx S of Welshpool.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Exterior
History: Built as a pair of cottages of unequal size, c1830- 40. No 1 was extended c1880 with the wide gabled range to the right.
Exterior: Original range is rough random local rubble; the later gable is roughly coursed and squared local stone, with dressed quoins; slate roofs with brick star-shaped axial and side wall stacks. Together the two cottages form a picturesque composition, using simplified Tudor-gothic detail. Main range is one and a half storeyed, symmetrically arranged as a 2-unit plan with central baffle entrance, though internally divided with the left-hand unit comprising No 2, the right hand unit forming part of No 1. Gabled porch (the entrance to No 2) with 4-centred voussoir arch. Flanking 2-light mullioned and transomed iron windows with small panes, and drop-ended hood moulds. Similar 2-light casement windows beneath dormer gables with wide bargeboards with finials above. No 1 has similar porch in centre of gable, flanked by narrow single light small-paned windows (renewed or inserted), and a similar 2-light mullioned and transomed window above, with drop-ended hood mould. Wide barge-boards to gable, with finial.
Good examples of estate cottage architecture, which form part of an important group of buildings at the Powis Estate Timber Yard.
Reference: Stephen Hughes, The Archaeology of the Montgomeryshire Canal, 1988, pp.90-92.
Interior
Reason for designation
Group Description
1 & 2 Timberyard Cottages, Powis Castle Timberyard
Cadw : Full Report for Listed Buildings [ Records 1 of 1 ]
Export