Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Llach-doll farmhouse (Llach-dolt) (including railed and gated terrace to front)
Glasbury, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Cornhill, Glasbury, Powys, designated on 18 January 1996.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 18 January 1996
- Locality
- Cornhill
- Community
- Glasbury
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.06455, -3.25006
- Cadw reference
- 17193
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)
- 1856 · 42. Brecon. (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
Located on the S side of the road, leading E from the road running north from Cornhill to Painscastle.
History
Farmhouse built by the Maesllwch Estate, early-mid C19.
Exterior
Rubble stonework with ashlar dressings and a slate roof. Two storeys, 4 bays, with continuous lean-to at the rear containing services and a central stair. Central gabled and flagged porch with side benches. Boarded door with chamfered cover strips, set in a heavy frame. Three-light iron casement windows in timber sub-frames, with monolithic pink stone lintels, and label mouldings with dropped out-turned ends. Four-light window W of porch and 2 light window at end bay. Stack on left gable end, and between third and fourth bays. Lean-to at rear continues roof slope at a slightly reduced pitch. Central larger iron framed window to stair, and four small gabled dormers also with iron framed glazing. Small windows in gable end.
Interior
Not accessible at time of inspection (July 1995). Said to have high ceilings to ground floor rooms, and longitudinal chamfered ceiling beams.
Reason for designation
Included as a well-preserved example of a substantial C19 estate farmhouse, of group value with its contemporary farm buildings.
Nearby in the register
- Carthouse and stable at Llach-doll farmDomesticunder 1 mi
- Barn at Llach-dollAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Penrhos farmhouse (including farm range to right)Domesticunder 1 mi
- Granary and carthouse at Penwern farmAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.