Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
21130
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
17/12/1998
Date of Amendment
17/12/1998
Name of Property
Former Counting House
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Talybont-on-Usk
Town
Locality
Talybont on Usk
Easting
311754
Northing
222351
Street Side
Location
Set into the bank above the canal, one side fronting the mountain road the other the canal, on the SE edge of Talybont village.
Description
Broad Class
Industrial
Period
History
Built 1814 at the end of the Brynoer tramroad by Jonathan Dixon and owned by Snead, partner of Bromage and Snead, Brecon Bankers. The tramroad terminated here alongside canal. Lower storey fronts the Brecknock and Abergavenny canal. Refurbished and extended as a dwelling; photograph taken beforehand shows core of building much as at present.
Exterior
A small building of toll-house style built into the canal bank. Of stone rubble with Welsh slate roof with decorative bargeboards, large square axial stack. Single storey single room building at roadside, 2 storeys at canal level. Pointed arched window with Gothick glazing in gable end onto road and former doorway, converted to window, with inset stone seat beside; faces up former tramroad. Timber additions to side and rear.
Interior
Converted to dwelling.
Reason for designation
Listed for its special importance in relation to the canal and the tramroad and for special interest as part of a group of buildings associated with the canal and tramroad.
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