Aqueduct Cottage

Aqueduct Cottage is a 19th century house built as part of the second phase of development of the Montgomeryshire Canal wharf. By the mid-19th century, it served as the canal agent's house. The cottage is constructed of brick with rubble in the gable walls and to the rear, topped with a slate roof and gable end stacks. It has one and a half storeys and a two-unit plan with a central entrance. The doorway is set in a timber gabled porch featuring dentilled bargeboards and trellised sides. On either side of the porch are iron casements with transoms and small panes, which have flat arched brick heads on the ground floor. Above, there are similar casement windows in gabled dormers. The cottage is built into the bank of the Lledan Brook, making it three storeys at the rear, where it also has iron small paned casement windows. Aqueduct Cottage is an excellent example of a canal-side house that retains much of its original character and detail, and it is an important part of a group of related structures associated with the major canal wharf at Welshpool.