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
7825
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
25/04/1950  
Date of Amendment
29/02/1996  
Name of Property
Oldford Cottage  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Powys  
Community
Welshpool  
Town
 
Locality
Welshpool  
Easting
322398  
Northing
307331  
Street Side
N  
Location
Oldford Lane runs to the N of the Oldford Estate, leaving Berriew Road immediately S of the Gateway Supermarket. The cottage is sited on rising ground.  

Description


Broad Class
Domestic  
Period
 

History
 

Exterior
History: Probably early C17, and said to have been the residence of the town-clerk in the C17, and subsequently used as a prison and a poor house. Exterior: Timber framed with painted brick infil; slate roof with brick gable end stacks. Box-framed with regular square panels with some arch bracing. Queen post and cambered collar truss visible in gable end. 2-unit plan with doorway towards centre: a plank door with moulded canopy hood. Flanking windows are small-paned iron casements, with similar windows in gabled dormers above. To the left, an outbuilding extension is timber-framed to the rear, and brick (painted in imitation of timber framing) to the front elevation, with some rubble in gable end. It was probably built as an agricultural outbuilding, though now forms part of the house. Listed as a good surviving example of a typical vernacular timber-framed cottage, unusual in the context of the town, and retaining much of its early character. Reference: Ion Trant, The Changing Face of Welshpool, 1986, p.107.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
 

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