Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Date of Designation
17/06/1993
Date of Amendment
17/06/1993
Name of Property
Dolau House (including forecourt railings and gate)
Community
Llanfihangel Rhydithon
Location
Lies 30m south-east of the Mid-Wales Railway line opposite Dolau Station.
History
Built mid-1860s by Thomas Watkins, local Quaker and benefactor. Watkins intended it to be a public house for the railway workers who were constructing the Mid-Wales line through Dolau, but these plans were dropped after objections from his Quaker Meeting; he eventually went to live there himself in retirement.
Exterior
Two storeys with attic rooms lit from gable end windows. Red brick, blue brick dressings, yellow brick voussoir window heads. Slate roof, boxed eaves, deep verges, two brick end stacks. Three-window front, all twelve-pane sashes without horns. pen-fronted, central gabled porch, modern glazed door.
Reason for designation
Prominent and unaltered village house of distinctive Victorian character. Group value with Dolau Baptist Chapel.
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