Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
16774
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
29/02/1996
Date of Amendment
29/02/1996
Name of Property
Ivy House with outbuildings
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Welshpool
Town
Locality
Pool Quay
Easting
325586
Northing
311542
Street Side
Location
Built against the E bank of the canal at Pool Quay Lock.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Exterior
History: The house was built c1830 as part of a maltings associated with the Montgomeryshire Canal: in 1845, the buildings at the site comprised house, engine house, and drying kilns. The maltings buildings adjoining the house were later used as warehousing.
Exterior: House is painted brick; outbuildings largely rough rubble; slate roofs throughout. House is 2-storeyed, a 2-unit plan with axial stack and central baffle entrance in added porch, flanked by 16-pane sash windows with flat arched heads. 3 similar windows to first floor.
A well-preserved early C19 house with its associated outbuildings, which as a former maltings complex, is significant as an example of canal-side industry.
Reference: Stephen Hughes, The Archaeology of the Montgomeryshire Canal , 1988, p.103, 109
Interior
Reason for designation
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