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
17319
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
12/09/1996
Date of Amendment
12/09/1996
Name of Property
6 Springfield including Glanmiheli with garden and yard walls
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Kerry
Town
Newtown
Locality
Sawmill
Easting
315668
Northing
289738
Street Side
Location
Located on the SW side of the minor road from Kerry to Sawmill, approximately 1km from the centre of Kerry.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
A range of estate workers' cottages built by the Naylor family in the 1880's as part of the development at Sawmills, Glanmiheli and Pentre, in association with the timber processing industry established here by Christopher Naylor. These mills were served by a 2ft (0.6m) gauge tramway laid out by Thomas Easthope in 1887 between the forests, the mill and the Kerry rail terminus at Glanmule. The timber industry, which included extensive plantations in the Kerry hills, continued to the Great War and after, and its railway, which also served the Wenlock shale stone quarry at Cwm, was rebuilt and extended by an incline by German submariners, living in thatched circular huts, in 1917 to 1ft 11½ (0.597m) gauge. It continued in use into the 1920's.
Exterior
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as a good example of high quality mid-Victorian estate housing.
Group Description
1-6 (incl) Springfield including Glanmiheli with garden yard and walls
Flemish bond brickwork with rock-faced quoins, and slate roof. Heavy stone lintels and sills to openings, stone kneelers and coped gables with finials. The group forms a symmetrical terrace of 6 2-storey dwellings, the end houses 'L' and 'T' plan with wings set forward to enclose the four intermediate cottages of two bays each with lateral stair hall and front and back rooms, boarded doors with applied moulded strips and plain overlights, (two doors replaced) and 16-pane sashes. End houses have similar windows and boarded doors. Brick stacks.
To the front, each house has a brick walled garden, the walls generally 10 courses high and rounded to the entrance gate. Higher garden walls of 14½ courses to the end houses, the corners well rounded.
To the rear, some have been painted, and No. 4 has a 2-storey C20 extension. Service yards behind a continuously coped brick wall, with openings to the service road, the yards containing brick outhouses set on and parallel with the wall.
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