Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Ashgrove House
Gwernyfed, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 15 December 1995
- Locality
- Treble Hill
- Community
- Gwernyfed
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.04609, -3.19481
- Cadw reference
- 17063
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 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Located at the end of a terrace of 2 houses, on the NW side of the road, behind a short front garden and hedge.
History
Early to mid C19.
Exterior
Coursed rubble sandstone, with a C20 concrete tiled roof. Three storeys, but two storeys to front elevation, 3 bays, through-hall plan with flanking reception rooms and gable stacks. Central part-glazed door and bracketed canopy over. Original margin glazed sashes to both ground and first floors, each with a further 2 intermediate margin lights set vertically. Monolithic lintels to ground floor and slightly cambered openings to the upper floor. Boxed eaves. Stacks pebbledashed. A C20 extension to the basement level added to the SW gable.
Reason for designation
Included as a house retaining its original and unusual glazing in a well preserved facade.
Nearby in the register
- Treble Hill Baptist ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Treble HillDomesticunder 1 mi
- Railway Bridge at Treble HillTransportunder 1 mi
- Tramway Office at BroomfieldCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.