Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
17316
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
12/09/1996
Date of Amendment
12/09/1996
Name of Property
3 Springfield including Glanmiheli with garden and yard walls
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Kerry
Town
Newtown
Locality
Sawmill
Easting
315647
Northing
289753
Street Side
Location
Located on the SW side of the minor road from Kerry to Sawmill, approximately 1km from the centre of Kerry.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
A range of estate workers' cottages built by the Naylor family in the 1880's as part of the development at Sawmills, Glanmiheli and Pentre, in association with the timber processing industry established here by Christopher Naylor. These mills were served by a 2ft (0.6m) gauge tramway laid out by Thomas Easthope in 1887 between the forests, the mill and the Kerry rail terminus at Glanmule. The timber industry, which included extensive plantations in the Kerry hills, continued to the Great War and after, and its railway, which also served the Wenlock shale stone quarry at Cwm, was rebuilt and extended by an incline by German submariners, living in thatched circular huts, in 1917 to 1ft 11½ (0.597m) gauge. It continued in use into the 1920's.
Exterior
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as a good example of high quality mid-Victorian estate housing.
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