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
18359
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
01/04/1996  
Date of Amendment
01/04/1996  
Name of Property
Meas-y-Neuadd  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Powys  
Community
Llanfair Caereinion  
Town
 
Locality
Llanfair Caereinion  
Easting
310325  
Northing
306676  
Street Side
NW  
Location
Located on a high bank in a prominent position overlooking the town.  

Description


Broad Class
Education  
Period
 

History
Built c1910-20, as the manse for the Presbyterian Church. It became the headmaster’s house for the Caereinion High School, and was converted in 1975 for practical teaching purposes. The architect is not known.  

Exterior
Two storey, rectangular plan with projecting wing to NW. Roughcast brickwork with steep pitched, hipped roofs with wide projecting eaves. Natural slate roof coverings were replaced with artificial slates in 1960s. Entrance front to E, a three-window range with central entrance. Paired double doors with stained glass in lights. Wide canopy over the segmentally arched centre, set on attenuated brackets. Sixteen-paned sash windows, but narrower windows either side of entrance. SE front, facing town, has an asymmetrical shouldered stack, slightly set forward, the shoulders tiled and upper offsets roofed. Brick and rendered stack with side vents, coped with stone. Stair window, at back, has a stepped sill.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
Listed as a good example of early C20 neo_Georgian vernacular style, well detailed and boldly massed to exploit its prominent position above the town.  

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