Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Courtyard Outbuildings to rear of Rookwood
Clyro, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 31 January 1995
- Locality
- Bronydd
- Community
- Clyro
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.10003, -3.12813
- Cadw reference
- 15323
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Below the main road, 2+ km north east of Clyro.
Exterior
Early C19. Two storeys with cellar. Rendered, slate roof, two parallel gabled wings to rear. Rubble stone outbuilding adjoins south end. Doors with margin glazing and fluted doorcases to right of centre front and in north gable end. Twelve-pane sash windows with stone cills on first floor and to right of front door, others are modern tall casements. Two brick end stacks and one larger brick ridge stack to left of centre.
Interior
Good period details including boxed beams with bead mouldings, closed string oak staircase with turned newel, fluted doorcases with roundel corner blocks. Fireplace surround in central room incorporates ornate Jacobean over-mantel (said to have come from Canon Frome Court, Herefordshire).
Reason for designation
To the rear of the house is a courtyard arrangement of outbuildings including barn, stable and trap house.
Listed as an early C19 farmhouse with good interiors.
Nearby in the register
- RookwoodDomesticunder 1 mi
- Summerhouse in grounds of RookwoodGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Bronydd Baptist ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Attached chapel cottage (also known as Rookwood Cottage)Domesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.