Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pendre Farmhouse
Talgarth, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 14 August 1995
- Locality
- Pengenffordd
- Community
- Talgarth
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.98506, -3.22733
- Cadw reference
- 16309
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 at the end of the farm track, below SE entrance to the scheduled promontory fort, Talgarth Camp.
Exterior
Farmhouse of the C17, the upper end rebuilt at right angles in early C19. Rubble stonework, partly colourwashed, with slate roofs. Rebuilt front elevation is 2 storeys, 3 bays, with central; 6-panelled door and patterned fanlight within a wooden panelled doorcase. Either side, 16-pane sashes, and C19 4-pane sashes to upper floor. Brick stack on NE gable, and W gable is pebbledashed. Wide outshut on rear wall abutting rear wing.
The earlier rear wing, beyond the original axial stack, is of 2 storeys, 2 bays, corrugated roof, and lean-to on gable end covering entrance to kitchen. A small 5-hole pigeon loft is set in the under the eaves.
Reason for designation
Included as a good well-preserved example of the early C19 modernisation of an earlier farmhouse.
Nearby in the register
- Barn at Pendre FarmAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Talgarth CampHillfortunder 1 mi
- Lower Genffordd FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Upper Enig HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.