Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Upper Llanbella
Gladestry, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Gladestry, Powys, designated on 31 January 1995.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 31 January 1995
- Locality
- Gladestry
- Community
- Gladestry
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.17294, -3.11596
- Cadw reference
- 15343
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1637 · Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 197 Hay (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Lies 2.4km SE of Gladestry and close to by-road junction 1 mile W of Huntington.
History
C18 and C19.
Exterior
Two storeys, rubble stone, slate roof. Long-range sited downslope with service rooms at the upper end. Various building phases are evident in the stonework. The lower end range has neater coursed rubble blocks and a cambered voussoir lintel over the ground-floor window. Projecting rubble stack to lower gable end, ridge stack to right of centre. Enclosed rubble porch, modern glazed door. Twelve-pane sash windows to the principal rooms, casements at the service end. Interior has scroll stopped beams and massive timber lintel to central open fireplace (now blocked).
Reason for designation
Included as a good unaltered example of a later vernacular farmhouse.
Nearby in the register
- Lower HengoedDomesticunder 1 mi
- Barn at Lower HengoedAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Stone HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Lower RabberDomestic1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.