Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pontithel House
Gwernyfed, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Pontithel, Gwernyfed, Powys, designated on 15 December 1995.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 15 December 1995
- Locality
- Pontithel
- Community
- Gwernyfed
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.02211, -3.21878
- Cadw reference
- 17055
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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)
- 1856 · 42. Brecon. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1896 · 214 Talgarth (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Located on the road from Brecon to Hay, approximately 150m E of Pont Ithel.
History
Early C19 house. Occupied in 1881 by the Manager of the former naphtha extraction works which stood to the rear and operated from the mid-late C19, working into the 1920's.
Exterior
A house of the early C19, of colourwashed stone with a slate roof. Two storeys, basement and attics. Three bays, with an attached outbuilding to the W gable end converted to accommodation in the late C20.
Central 6-panelled door in timber pilastered doorcase, the canopy missing. Sixteen paned sashes to ground and first floors, but 12-pane sash over door; all opening with cambered heads and stone sills. Gable stacks. Windows to attics in gable ends.
Front garden railings and gates set on a low wall, taking up slope of the ground. The rails are looped round-section iron bars, threaded through horizontal iron flats. Stanchions have pointed finials. Central gate, and a secondary gate to the left with dog rails.
Reason for designation
Included as a well preserved early C19 house.
Nearby in the register
- 4 Pontithel CottagesDomesticunder 1 mi
- 5 Pontithel CottagesDomesticunder 1 mi
- Pontithel (partly in the Bronllys community)Transportunder 1 mi
- Pontithel (partly in Gwernyfed community)Transportunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.