History

Built in the mid C19 as a group of estate cottages for workers on the Voelas Estate, probably c1845, the date shown on Nos 1 and 2. No 5 was once the village post office, and it has now incorporated the former saddlery shop at the N end.

Exterior

No 5 adjoins No 3 on the N, and fronts the Nebo Road. The entrance door in the lower bay is studded, and set within a segmental headed arch with a label moulding over, and 4-paned window above. A large external stack protrudes partly at the rear. The upper bay has a 2-light timber casement window in a small gable lighting the upper room. The cottage is now combined with the former saddlery shop, which forms a cross wing at the N end. Large ground floor shop window with a blind box extending over the framed and battened entrance door on the right. Three casement windows in the gable end, the centre 2-light, flanked by single light windows. End gable stack.

Reasons for Listing

Included as well detailed C19 estate cottages, of group value at the centre of Pentrefoelas.

External Links

• Cadwr Listing
• Wikidata Q29497925

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Recommended Books

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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)