Workhouse wonder is a classic case in need.(News)

From: Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales) | Date: May 4, 2004 | Copyright information

The Llanfyllin Union Workhouse is one of three historic buildings in Wales competing in the next series of Restoration. Michael Goulden stakes its claim

TRAVELLING half a mile out of the old market town of Llanfyllin, down the Cain Valley to the south, a grand stone faade appears out of the open fields. Its sheer size, the biggest building in the area by far, and its monumental classical composition still has the power to shock after the pretty brick and half timbered bu...

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