Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Upper House
Old Radnor, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 12 December 1995
- Locality
- Kinnerton
- Community
- Old Radnor
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.26069, -3.10996
- Cadw reference
- 18008
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 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
About 150m NW of Kinnerton motte and 100m SW of church.
Exterior
C16 origins. L-plan, 2 storeys, formerly hall and jettied crosswing. C19 2-storey dairy/cellar extension to rear of wing and single-storey range c1920 to right hand front. Timber-framed with some brick replacement, rendered front elevation, mainly slate hung to rear, slate roofs, hipped to front right. Two projecting side stacks to wing, one with tall squared rubble upper, brick end stack to left gable frames, upper ones have metal casements. C19 framed and boarded door, flat canopy on curved brackets.
Interior
Central hallway with mid C18 dog-leg stairs, closed string, heavy moulded handrail, square section newel with corner mouldings, turned balusters. Front room of crosswing has a richly moulded beam and wall post. Further evidence of timber-framing eg bressumer beams, soleplates, close-studded walls can be picked out behind plaster and wallpaper. A chamfered and stopped door frame is exposed in the south wall of the wing. Room to left of hallway has raised and fielded panelling, door and corner cupboard of mid C18 date. Stone flagged floors.
Reason for designation
Listed for its substantial original interiors, notwithstanding a much-remodelled vernacular exterior.
Nearby in the register
- Former Stable Building Sited 15 yards north of Upper HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Telephone Call-box at crossroads opposite churchyardCommunicationsunder 1 mi
- Kinnerton Castle MoundMotteunder 1 mi
- Kinnerton CourtDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.