Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Upper Llandewi
Painscastle, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Llandewi Fach, Painscastle, Powys, designated on 9 March 1995.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 9 March 1995
- Locality
- Llandewi Fach
- Community
- Painscastle
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.09107, -3.26952
- Cadw reference
- 15908
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
Lies 2.4 kilometres south west of parish church of St David.
Exterior
Former cruck house with C17/C18 rebuilding phases. One-and-a-half storeys sited downslope with wash-house/dairy extension at lower end. Rubble stone, overpainted, slate roof, rubble porch to left of centre. Four small eaves dormers, brick stacks to ridge and upper end. C19/C20 small-paned casement windows under timber lintels.
Interior
One cruck truss visible in upper end gable, large central stack with back-to-back fireplaces, ovolo-moulded beams in room to right of stack, large close-set chamfered joists in room to left of stack. Stone built winder stairs rise in alcove on north side of stack. Two salting slabs in dairy.
Reason for designation
A good representative example of a typical vernacular Radnorshire farmhouse retaining internal structural features.
Nearby in the register
- Castle Mound 400m N of CefnigeMotteunder 1 mi
- New BuildingsDomesticunder 1 mi
- Pentre Jack SettlementDeserted Rural Settlementunder 1 mi
- PenisarplwyfDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.