Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Lower Hurdley Farmhouse
Churchstoke, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 1 October 1996
- Locality
- Hurdley
- Town
- Montgomery
- Community
- Churchstoke
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.54068, -3.03994
- Cadw reference
- 17353
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 1637 "Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
South facing house set back from the road on a sloping site, enclosed by a stone wall on the S, W and N side, and by a yard on the E side. It stands immediately E of Hurdley Farm.
Exterior
Asymmetrical double fronted, C18 farmhouse of 2 storeys, with single storey lean-to at rear. Random rubble with slate roof. Gable stacks in stone. Front faces S and has 2x2-light casement windows to wall plate, and 2x2-light casements with small panes in lower storey. Ledged and battened door to right of centre. W wall built against an earthen bank with a former pantry vent, now glazed but retaining iron bars, to the right. Added lean-to at rear.
Interior
Two-unit plan: parlour to the right, with kitchen to left. The kitchen contains a fireplace enclosed in random rubble jambs, with a former pantry to the left, and a quarter turn timber stair with a handrail at the top.
Reason for designation
Listed as a well preserved C18 upland farmhouse which forms a group with Hurdley Farm and Hurdley Hall.
Nearby in the register
- Hurdley FarmDomesticunder 1 mi
- Hurdley HallDomesticunder 1 mi
- Roundton HillfortHillfortunder 1 mi
- The Llanerch (also known as Park House)Domesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.