CPAT Regional Sites & Monuments Record

PRN 30738 - Welshpool, Severn Street `Dolanog Cottages'
Listed Building 7846 (II )

C17 or C18 timber frame of grid type. 2 storeys including small gabled dormers. 2 casement windows. Central 6-panel door with small wooden porch. Slate overshot roof (formerly thatched). Small wing to East with 3 windows. Said to have been used as workhouse. Similar to many unlisted cottages in the area but of value as rare survival of this type in the town and occupying moderately conspicuous position in picturesque proximity to canal.

(Former listing description)

The following is from Cadw's Listed Buildings database

Set back from the road at right angles to the canal.

The cottages are probably late C17-early C18, and were originally single storeyed, raised in height probably in the early C19.

Box framed in square panels with timbers of thin scantling, and painted brick panelled infil. Raking queen strut truss exposed in gable end, the present roof line the result of raising the building in brick; slate roof with axial chimney. Doorway to left in thin gabled timber porch; 3 blocked windows, and a gabled dormer in the roof. Lower outbuilding alongside has axial stack.

The building is of interest as a small vernacular cottage which was originally single storeyed - a scale of dwelling rare in the immediate environs of the town.

Sources:-
Cadw , 1981 , Powys: List No. 16 (Welshpool) , 42
Cadw Listing database , 2000 , ,
Jones, N W, Silvester, R J & Britnell, W J , 2003 , Montgomery Canal Conservation Management Strategy. Landscape Archaeology Assessment , CPAT Report 550 .

Events:-
Assessment CPAT / 2003(31/08/03) -
Desktop study CPAT / 2003(31/08/03) -
HLC CPAT / 2003(31/08/03) -

record created 31/12/89 JM89 - copyright CPAT , last updated 10/05/04
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Clwyd Powys Archaeological Trust, Curatorial Section, 7a Church Street, Welshpool, Powys SY21 7DL.
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