Full Report for Listed Buildings


Summary Description of a Listed Buildings


Reference Number
16217
Building Number
7  
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
31/07/1995  
Date of Amendment
31/07/1995  
Name of Property
No 7  
Address
7 Elan Village  

Location


Unitary Authority
Powys  
Community
Rhayader  
Town
 
Locality
 
Easting
293408  
Northing
265125  
Street Side
 
Location
To NE of Nos 4 & 5.  

Description


Broad Class
Domestic  
Period
 

History
Pair of semi-detached houses built by City of Birmingham for maintenance workers at Elan Valley reservoir scheme. Designed between 1906 and 1909 by Buckland, Haywood, & Farmer, architects, of Birmingham.  

Exterior
Arts & Crafts style pair of semi-detached houses. Brown rubble with bathstone dressings, slate roof. Mullioned windows (casements renewed). Three stone chimneys. Each house has advanced cross gable (apex slate hung) to end, with 3-light window to first floor, and 2-light window to ground floor (offset to R). Between gables, each house has small first floor window, and smaller ground floor window (grouped as pair). To L, roof sweeps down over porch in angle with cross gable; to R, in similar position, porch has hipped slate roof.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
High quality early C20 Arts & Crafts pair of houses, forming part of group of Garden Village buildings in Elan Village. Group value.  

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