History

Mid C19 village shop.

Exterior

Whitewashed roughcast with hipped slate roof and roughcast N end stack ( S end stack removed). Roof has flat eaves and is chamfered at SE angle. Two storeys, main three-window E front, narrow chamfered-off SE angle, and two-bay S side. 12-pane hornless sashes. Stucco plinth, band between floors, and angle strip on N end. E front has ground floor centre flat-roofed porch with double half-glazed doors and overlight, between roughcast piers with stucco caps and plinths. Narrow windows in side walls. Early C20 photographs show a slate hipped porch on two timber chamfered posts. 12-pane sash to right, and big square 20-pane shop window to left. Windowless N end. Chamfered SE angle has "Llanwnen Post Office" in raised letters on ground floor and 12-pane sash above. S side has roughcast flat porch (formerly with hipped slate roof) with double doors to right, centre similar 20-pane shop window and post-box to ground floor left (in infilled window), with 12-pane sash to first floor above. Similar angle strip at left angle.

Reasons for Listing

Listed as a good mid C19 house still in late Georgian style, in very prominent position on cross-roads. The survival of original shop windows is especially unusual.

External Links

• Cadwr Listing
• Wikidata Q29495618

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Recommended Books

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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  The Shredded Chef: 120 Recipes for Building Muscle, Getting Lean, and Staying Healthy
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)