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
87774
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
19/10/2018
Date of Amendment
Name of Property
Cottage 2
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Welshpool
Town
Locality
Easting
322610
Northing
307376
Street Side
Location
On the W side of the Canal Yard facing onto the Powysland Museum.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Early C19/ Built as part of a row of service buildings and cottages associated with the Montgomeryshire Canal wharf. The row was built piecemeal from the late C18, but was substantially complete by the mid C19. Cottages to the S of the Museum (Town Wharf Warehouse) demolished late C20 and remainder altered. To N (attached) is the canal office. In use as part of museum at time of inspection, with ground floor right presenting a tableau as a schoolroom, and the remainder a store.
Exterior
Cottage. Two bay two storey with off-set central doorway. Red brick with brick heads to openings, dentil eaves cornice and brick gable stacks. Slate roof, stone cills, small pane 12-light casement windows. 4 panel door with projecting gabled timber porch, diagonal boarding to lower part, open lattice above, and with bargeboards and finial.
Interior
Room to right with inset fireplace and corbelled surround. Store room to left, stair at rear, dog leg with boarded door and partition.
Reason for designation
Included (along with Cottage 1) for its special architectural interest as an excellent example of a canal side building which retains much of its character and detail. Group value with the adjacent Powysland Museum (Town Wharf Warehouse) and Town Lock.
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