Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Rhos Farmhouse
Talgarth, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 14 August 1995
- Locality
- Genffordd
- Community
- Talgarth
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.97726, -3.20174
- Cadw reference
- 16301
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
Located on an elevated plateau, former moorland, in the angle of a minor road running below Y Grib.
History
Built in the late C17/early C18 by a High Sheriff of Breconshire.
Exterior
Farmhouse of the late C17/early C18. Rubble stone with slate roof. Two storeys, hall with lateral stack and service room at W end, supplemented by later lean-to extensions to gable end and on N side, and a parlour at the upper end, to which is added a 2-storey 1-bay wing with gable stack. Wide 6-panelled door to lower end of hall. Transomed paned windows, most with timber lintels but segmental head to service room, and drip mould over rear window. Three transomed 2-light C17 windows to first floor on N side. Open eaves, the bearers painted red.
Interior
Not accessible at time of inspection (March 1995). Said to contain a fine late C17 staircase with original dog gate in situ, and other features.
Reason for designation
Included as a substantial farmhouse of the late C17/early C18, on the edge of the uncultivated and unenclosed uplands.
Nearby in the register
- Middle GenfforddDomesticunder 1 mi
- Pen-Twyn including attached BarnDomesticunder 1 mi
- Bwlch Bach a'r Grib, round cairn to SW ofRound Cairnunder 1 mi
- Detached Farm Building at GwrloddeAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.