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History of Llanfyllin · Cadw

Llanfyllin: 47% of homes built before 1919

For Llanfyllin, that is 3 times the typical town’s share, 15%. Cadw lists 80 buildings inside Llanfyllin’s built-up area, 716 for every 10,000 residents. Llanfyllin grades A+ for history.

2Grade II*9on Bridge Street

Listed buildings

716 per 10,000 residents

Grade I

exceptional interest

Grade II*

more than special interest

Scheduled monuments

1 registered park or garden

Homes built before 1919

47%

typical UK town 15%

In pictures

Landmarks of Llanfyllin

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Council HouseGrade II* listed

Photos from Wikimedia Commons and Geograph, copied to our own server, each credited to its photographer with its licence; names open the building’s page or its official list entry.

The map

Where Llanfyllin’s history is

Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.

Grade II*Park or garden

Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.

80 listed buildings by grade

0 Grade I2 Grade II*78 Grade II

Cadw lists buildings of special architectural or historic interest in three grades: Grade I for buildings of exceptional interest, Grade II* for particularly important buildings of more than special interest, and Grade II for buildings of special interest. Listing protects the whole building, inside and out.

Every entry on Cadw’s register of listed buildings whose point lies inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary. One list entry can cover a terrace or a group of buildings.

Grade II*

The 2 Grade II* listed buildings in Llanfyllin

Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. 1 is photographed. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.

House · listed 1951Council House, High StreetOn the list as Council HousePhoto: Llywelyn2000 · CC BY-SA 4.0

House · listed 1951The Manor House

Historic streets

Bridge Street has the most listed buildings

Streets by the listed entries with an address on them. One entry can be a whole terrace, so long rows count once.

Bridge Street9 listed

High Street6 listed

Penybryn6 listed

Market Street5 listed

Of the 80 entries, 30 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.

What’s protected

Most of Llanfyllin’s listed buildings are homes

Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.

Houses, terraces & villas44

Inns, shops & warehouses30

Public & civic buildings3

Churches, chapels & priories2

Walls, gates & bridges1

44 entries (55%) are houses, terraces and villas. 2 are churches, chapels and priories.

Buildings are sorted by Cadw’s broad class for each building, else by words in its name; an entry named only by its address counts as a house.

Grade II

78 Grade II listed buildings

Most listed buildings are in this grade, which covers buildings of special interest. Open any building to read its official list entry.

All 78 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z

'Corner House' Market Street Abel House Afalon, Brachie Place Bakery Bridge Brookside Bryn Glas, Brachie Place Cain Valley Hotel Capel Annibynnol Cefn-y-Coed Church View Compton House Denbigh House Denbigh House Eagle Cafe Former County Intermediate School Glanaber Globe House Green Square Green Square Gwyndy London House Lower Cross Keys P.H.Melbourne House National Westminster Bank Nazar Post Office Rhiwlas House Rhiwlas Terrace Rhiwlas Terrace Rhiwlas Terrace Rhiwlas Terrace Rhiwlas Terrace Rhiwlas Terrace Rhiwlas Terrace St. Myllin's Church Tai Clochydd Tai Clochydd Tegfan The Hall The Old New Inn The Old White Lion Trawscoed, Brachie Place Trewen Villa Norge Walls, railings and gates to Former County Intermediate School Waterloo House Y Bwthyn 1 Bridge Street 1 Market Street 1 Narrow Street (Down to Earth)1 Penybryn 1 Vine Square 10 Bridge Street 12 Bridge Street 13 Market Street 14 Bridge Street 14 Market Street 16 Bridge Street 19 Bridge Street 2 Bridge Street 2 Penybryn 2 Vine Square 24 High Street (Y dderwen Werdd)25 High Street 29 High Street 3 Bridge Street 38 High Street 4 Bridge Street 4 Market Street 4 Penybryn 40 High Street 45 High Street 46 High Street 5 Penybryn 6 Market Street 8 Penybryn 9 Penybryn

Conservation areas

1 conservation area covers 6.8% of Llanfyllin

Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.

Llanfyllin4 ha

4 hain conservation areas, of 60 ha inside the built-up area.

70 of the 80 listed buildings stand in one.

Cadw’s conservation areas via DataMapWales. Hectares are the part of each area inside the built-up area.

How the list grew

More than half of Llanfyllin’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1993

The year each building now on the list was first listed.

1993 · 621951 · 16

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The first 16 entries were listed in 1951. 62 came in 1993. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.

Monuments & landscapes

Monuments, parks and gardens

Designations that overlap the town by a tenth of their area or half a hectare.

1 registered park or garden

Bodfach HallGrade II · Formal and informal Victorian garden including shrubberies and walks, tree planted lawns and south terraces

History Grade

Llanfyllin grades A+ for history

Protected heritage and the age of the town’s homes, against all UK towns.

Protected heritage, for its size and in all (83 points, 742 per 10,000 residents)More than 91% of UK towns

Homes built before 1919 (47%)More than 97% of UK towns

Two measures, each ranked against every UK town of 1,000 or more, with protected heritage counting twice as much as the age of homes. Protected heritage counts each listed building by its grade (Grade I three points, II* two, II one), each scheduled monument and battlefield two, and each registered park or garden by its grade; it is ranked both per 10,000 residents and as a total, so a village with one fine church doesn’t outrank a historic city. The second measure is the share of homes built before 1919, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records. History is a character grade: it describes the town and isn’t part of the overall grade.

Homes by age

47% of Llanfyllin’s homes were built before 1919

Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).

48%

Before 1900

1.3%

1900–18

5.3%

1919–29

1930s

2.7%

1945–54

2.7%

1955–64

5.3%

1965–72

5.3%

1973–82

1983–92

9.3%

1993–99

11%

2000–08

2009–15

1.3%

2016–25

LlanfyllinEngland & Wales

48% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 2000–08, which added 11% of today’s homes.

Valuation Office Agency, council tax stock of properties by build period, 31 March 2025, for the neighbourhoods (LSOAs) that make up the town, split by where their residents live. Homes with no recorded build period (0 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

Born here

3 notable people born in Llanfyllin before 1900

Their lives on one timeline, earliest first.

Robert Jones

David Miall Edwards

Clement Davies

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Clement Davies1884–1962 · British politician (1884-1962)

David Miall Edwards1873–1941 · Welsh Non-conformist writer and theologian

Robert Jones1809–1879 · Welsh Anglican priest and writer (1809–1879)

Everyone born in Llanfyllin → Birthplaces from Wikidata; portraits from Wikimedia Commons.

Neighbours

Listed buildings in the places around Llanfyllin

Town	People	Listed	Grade I	History
Llanfyllin	1,118	80	0	A⁺
Guilsfield	1,160	22	1	A⁻
Llanymynech	1,040	17	0	B⁺
Four Crosses	1,469	12	0	B⁺
Pant	1,173	4	0	C⁺
Welshpool	5,460	203	1	A⁺
Morda	1,976	5	0	C⁻
Oswestry	17,500	137	1	A⁻

In brief

Llanfyllin in brief

Few towns are as rich in listed heritage as Llanfyllin: per resident it has more than 91% of UK towns. All told, the list holds 80 listed buildings. Its housing is old: 47% of homes date from before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. Bridge Street alone has 9 listed buildings.

A conservation area protects part of it. Most entries on the list, 55%, are houses, terraces and villas. Clement Davies (1884), David Miall Edwards (1873) and Robert Jones (1809) were all born here before 1900. The rest is about typical: like most towns its size, it has no Grade I building.

Questions about Llanfyllin’s history

How many listed buildings are there in Llanfyllin?

Cadw lists 80 buildings inside Llanfyllin’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 2 Grade II* and 78 Grade II.

Which street in Llanfyllin has the most listed buildings?

Bridge Street (9), High Street (6) and Penybryn (6) have the most listed entries named by an address. One entry can be a whole terrace.

How many conservation areas are there in Llanfyllin?

1, covering about 4 hectares of the town. The largest is Llanfyllin.

When were Llanfyllin’s buildings listed?

The first in 1951; the most, 62, in 1993.

Who was born in Llanfyllin?

Among people born before 1900: Clement Davies (1884), David Miall Edwards (1873) and Robert Jones (1809).

How old are the homes in Llanfyllin?

47% of homes were built before 1919 and 53% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).

Sources: Cadw listed buildings, scheduled monuments and registered historic parks and gardens via DataMapWales, October 2026, inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary · Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties by build period (31 March 2025) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only · Cadw conservation areas via DataMapWales (October 2026). All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

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