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
Tagged with: Building
Dated 1719. Formerly an Academy for the Daughters of the Gentry, one time War Memorial Hospital and later Youth Hostel.
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).
Formerly contained contemporary interiors.
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