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
9282
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
17/06/1993
Date of Amendment
17/06/1993
Name of Property
Dolau House (including forecourt railings and gate)
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Llanfihangel Rhydithon
Town
Locality
Dolau
Easting
313999
Northing
267103
Street Side
Location
Lies 30m south-east of the Mid-Wales Railway line opposite Dolau Station.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Built mid-1860s by Thomas Watkins, local Quaker and benefactor. Watkins intended it to be a public house for the railway workers who were constructing the Mid-Wales line through Dolau, but these plans were dropped after objections from his Quaker Meeting; he eventually went to live there himself in retirement.
Exterior
Two storeys with attic rooms lit from gable end windows. Red brick, blue brick dressings, yellow brick voussoir window heads. Slate roof, boxed eaves, deep verges, two brick end stacks. Three-window front, all twelve-pane sashes without horns. pen-fronted, central gabled porch, modern glazed door.
Interior
Reason for designation
Prominent and unaltered village house of distinctive Victorian character. Group value with Dolau Baptist Chapel.
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