Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Newhouse
Painscastle, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Painscastle, Powys, designated on 9 March 1995.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 9 March 1995
- Locality
- Painscastle
- Community
- Painscastle
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.10864, -3.21717
- Cadw reference
- 15903
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)
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1637 · Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia (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
Prominent village location at cross roads.
History
Vernacular farmhouse in two parts and with uncertain date (not inspected internally); said to have good quality C17 staircase.
Exterior
Main range of two storeys, 3 windows rubble stone, slate roof. Projecting stack with brick upper to south gable and further brick stacks to north end of house and to gable end of adjoining one-and-a-half storey range which appears to be converted outbuilding. External steps rise at north end. Glazed door, two ground floor windows under segmental voussoir arches, the two southerly windows are large double-cross style.
Reason for designation
Included for its older vernacular character in a prominent location in Painscastle.
Nearby in the register
- Newhouse BarnAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- The Old ShopDomesticunder 1 mi
- PendreDomesticunder 1 mi
- Castle FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.