Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Lower Hurdley Farmhouse
Churchstoke, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Hurdley, Montgomery, Churchstoke, Powys, designated on 1 October 1996.
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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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1637 map "Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1637 · Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1795 · To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most… (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 165 Montgomery (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (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.