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Reference Number
7754
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
11/03/1981
Date of Amendment
29/02/1996
Name of Property
No 9 Sarn-y-bryn-caled Cottages
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Welshpool
Town
Locality
Sarn-y-bryn-caled
Easting
321933
Northing
305058
Street Side
Location
Sarn-y-bryn-caled Cottages are on the old line of the Welshpool-Newtown Road, cut-off by the Welshpool by-pass and now a by- road leading to the cana
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Exterior
History: The house forms part of a small settlement developed by the Powis Estate to house its agricultural workers, between c1830 and 1881. This house was one of the first to be built here, c1830-40.
Description: Coursed and squared snecked local sandstone to main front, the rest brick; graded slate roof, with gable end stacks. 2 storeys, 2-unit plan. Central doorway with battened plank door in shallow timber porch with simple architrave, flanked by small-paned iron casement windows of and 3 lights, with flat arched voussoir heads to ground floor.
Part of a group of model cottages forming an excellent example of a small estate settlement which retains much of its original character.
Reference: Stephen Hughes, The Archaeology of the Montgomeryshire Canal, 1988, p.92.
Interior
Reason for designation
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