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Ivy Towers

A Grade II* Listed Building in Crickhowell, Powys

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.8582 / 51°51'29"N

Longitude: -3.1375 / 3°8'15"W

OS Eastings: 321758

OS Northings: 218345

OS Grid: SO217183

Mapcode National: GBR F0.T4CM

Mapcode Global: VH6CH.KKPC

Plus Code: 9C3RVV56+7X

Entry Name: Ivy Towers

Listing Date: 19 July 1963

Last Amended: 25 September 1986

Grade: II*

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 7264

Building Class: Domestic

ID on this website: 300007264

Location: Set back from the road behind front garden with gable end to High Street beside the Dragon Hotel; part of a specially good group of early Georgian buildings along with the Dragon Hotel and Latham Hous

County: Powys

Community: Crickhowell (Crughywel)

Community: Crickhowell

Built-Up Area: Crickhowell

Traditional County: Brecknockshire

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History

Dated 1719. Formerly an Academy for the Daughters of the Gentry, one time War Memorial Hospital and later Youth Hostel.

Exterior

Fine 2-storey and attic 5-window stucco front; steep slate roof, brick end chimney stacks, boxed eaves and deep dentilled cornice. Central pedimented cross gable with similar cornice; semicircular 5-pane attic window. 12-pane sash windows with flush frames to ground and first floors with stepped voussoir lintels, keystones, with dripstones and lugged architraves. Central pedimented doorcase with bracketed cornices and fluted Ionic pilasters, later half-glazed door.

Rubble right end wall with advanced chimney breast and 2 sash windows with glazing bars to attic. Roughcast left end wall and rear.

Disused at time of inspection (October 1985).

Interior

Formerly contained contemporary interiors.

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  • II* The Dragon Hotel
    Splayed street frontage, set back behind cobbled pavement to front, part of a specially good group of early Georgian houses along with Ivy Towers and Latham House.
  • II* The Ivy Tower
    Beside the road, in front of the Wardens Cottage and L-plan range.
  • II No.1 & The Tower front of No.49 High Street
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  • II NO.2 Tower Street, Powys
    Planned terrace forming the whole of the NE side of the street together with S front of No 49 High Street; No 8 around corner towards Beaufort Street.
  • II NO.3 Tower Street, Powys
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  • II Dairy Shop
    Short terrace midway down the High Street meeting the Tower Street NE terrace at the corner.
  • II* Latham House
    At the end of a continuous row of frontages, detached to the right. Part of a specially good group of early Georgian houses along with the Dragon Hotel and Ivy Towers.

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