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Canal House

A Grade II Listed Building in Llangattock, Powys

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.8489 / 51°50'55"N

Longitude: -3.1542 / 3°9'15"W

OS Eastings: 320594

OS Northings: 217327

OS Grid: SO205173

Mapcode National: GBR F0.TL8C

Mapcode Global: VH6CH.8SWJ

Plus Code: 9C3RRRXW+G8

Entry Name: Canal House

Listing Date: 21 October 1998

Last Amended: 21 October 1998

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 20707

Building Class: Domestic

ID on this website: 300020707

Location: Located N of Upper Yard Bridge (Canal Bridge No 115) and the Brecknock Boat Company’s limekilns, on the W side of the Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal, near Llangattock Wharf. The front faces E.

County: Powys

Community: Llangattock (Llangatwg)

Community: Llangattock

Locality: Llangattock Wharf

Built-Up Area: Llangattock

Traditional County: Brecknockshire

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History

The Brecon and Abergavenny Canal was proposed in 1792 to connect the Upper Usk valley to the Monmouthshire Canal at Pontymoile and from there to the sea at Newport. The middle section of the canal, between Gilwern and Talybont and including Llangattock, was cut between 1797 and 1799.

Said to be the Wharfinger’s house, built by the Brecknock and Abergavenny Canal Co. in 1840. This is supported by a tablet on the front of the house which reads B & AC / 1840. The house is shown on the Llangattock Tithe Map of 1845 in the same plot as the limekilns. On the front door-frame is an inscription reading MR & C Co. 144. This is a reference to the Monmouthshire Railway and Canal Company which bought the canal in 1865. A reconstruction drawing shows a cart shed and tramroad at the N end of the house. This was replaced later by an extension, built after the tramroad and limekilns had gone out of use in the later C19.

Exterior

Symmetrical 2-window, 2-storey main range with central doorway, constructed of roughly coursed sandstone. Two-storey, 1-window extension to the N, slightly set back, of snecked masonry with stone dressings. All under a slate roof with brick end stacks, yellow brick to the main range and red brick to the extension. The openings are under segmental heads with voussoirs, and all the windows are 12-pane horned sashes. The front door is glazed with small panes. A continuous hoodmould rises over the front door and its flanking windows, with hoodmoulds in the same style over the upper storey windows of the main range. Between them and just below the eaves is a tablet bearing an inscription.

The S gable end is rendered. There is an added flat-roofed single storey extension against the S end and continuing round the rear. It contains a C20 half-lit door to the front. (There is a small upper storey extension to the rear.) The N gable end is of masonry to the ground floor, rebuilt in red brick at the upper level and containing a C20 window.

Interior

No access to interior at time of inspection (August 1997)

Reasons for Listing

Listed for its special interest as an important survival of a Brecknock and Abergavenny Canal building reflecting industrial activity at Llangattock Wharf.

Group value with other listed items associated with Llangattock Wharf.

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Other nearby listed buildings

  • II* Bank of Limekilns
    Located immediately N of Upper Yard Bridge (Canal Bridge No 115), on the W side of the Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal.
  • II Upper Yard Bridge (Canal Bridge No 115)
    The bridge carries a lane which runs WSW from Llangattock village towards Beaufort. It is 0.75km from the Church. Llangattock Wharf is located between bridges Nos 114 and 115.
  • II Limekiln
    Located between Lower and Upper Yard Bridges (Canal Bridges Nos 114 and 115) on the W side of the Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal; to S of the large bank of limekilns at Llangattock Wharf.
  • II Lower Yard Bridge (Canal Bridge No 114)
    The bridge carries a lane which runs SW from Llangattock village towards the Llangattock quarries. It is 0.8km from the Church. Llangattock Wharf is located between bridges Nos 114 and 115.
  • II Bethesda Chapel
    Located in a prominent position in the fork of two roads, between the centre of Llangattock village and the Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal.
  • II Pen-y-Pentre (aka The Old Factory House)
    Located in a prominent position in Llangattock village, at the fork of 2 roads and opposite and to the N of Bethesda Chapel. The Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal is a short distance to the SW.
  • II Llangattock Park House
    Set within Llangattock Park which is situated on the SE side of the village. The house is towards the S end of the park. A nursing home adjoins to the SW, partly occupying former outbuildings.
  • II The Stables Hotel (formerly known as Neuadd, then the Mountain Hotel)
    Located off the S side of the road from Llangattock to Beaufort, on the hillside to the SW of the village.

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