Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Little Gaer
Gladestry, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 31 January 1995
- Locality
- Michaelchurch-on-Arrow
- Community
- Gladestry
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.15362, -3.08101
- Cadw reference
- 15346
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 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
1.6 KM NE of Michaelchurch and close to N side of Brilley Mountain.
History
C15/C16 cruck house, remodelled in C18.
Exterior
One-and-a-half storeys, long range with former cowhouses at west end. House has large square panel timber framing with brick infill over rubble base, rubble gable end incorporating stack with moulded cap (shows raised roofline to rear), large ridge stack at west end. Three eaves dormers to each elevation, central boarded door, multi-light, small- paned casement windows. Cowhouse range is rubble stone with boarded doors and random small-paned casements. Stone tile roof.
Interior
One cruck couple partially exposed at the west end, has notched lap- jointed collar and appears to be smoke blackened on both sides with no original infill. The later inserted chimney stack is built up against it. Early C18 large open fireplace with rough chamfered timber lintel and bread oven (opening modified), chamfered and scroll stopped beams and moulded wall post in west room. East end rooms modified in later C18 and again in recent years, modern stairs. Former cowhouses have rough stud partition walls and trusses with paired raking braces. One wall incorporates earlier square panel framing.
Reason for designation
Included as a picturesque cottage range with substantial sub-medieval fabric.
Nearby in the register
- Church of St MichaelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Church House FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Milton MillIndustrial1 mi
- L-Plan Range adjoining Baynham HallAgriculture and Subsistence2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.