Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
The Old Glyn
Bettws, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 25 April 1997
- Locality
- Ucheldre
- Community
- Bettws
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.57432, -3.27496
- Cadw reference
- 18422
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
Located approximately 1.9km NE of Bettws Cedewain church, and reached at the end of a track at the end of a farm road to Glyn Farm on S side of minor road between Bettws Cedewain and Brooks.
History
Small C17 2-unit, single-storey house enlarged by addition of a wing, and heightened in the C19 to 2 storeys by raising eaves of wing and inserting dormer to main range. Lean-to and outshot were also added at rear in the C19.
Exterior
Two-storey house consisting of a main range with wing to R. Timber framed in square panels with tension bracing (on a brick plinth) and slate roof with axial C19 brick stack over junction of 2 ranges. Doorway is to R in the gable end of main range, to L of which are 2x2-light casements, with single casement in the gable. The L side wall has similar casements, and a timber framed dormer. The wing has a 2-light casement to front, with a similar window in the added upper storey. The gable end to R has similar windows. (Roughcast lean-tos to main range and catslide roofed outshot to wing are C19).
Interior
Two-unit main range with lobby entry and fireplace in the lateral wall.
Nearby in the register
- Pen-y-Gaer CampHillfortunder 1 mi
- Ucheldre CampEnclosureunder 1 mi
- Pentre Llifior Methodist ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Brynycil FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.