Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Hollybush Cottage
Forden with Leighton and Trelystan, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Moel y Mab, Forden, Forden with Leighton and Trelystan, Powys, designated on 20 March 1998.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 20 March 1998
- Locality
- Moel y Mab
- Town
- Forden
- Community
- Forden with Leighton and Trelystan
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.63741, -3.10790
- Cadw reference
- 19550
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1795 map "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Historical maps covering this location
- 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 · 151 Welshpool (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1916 · Sheet 60. Shrewsbury. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Located approximately 1.3km SE of Leighton church and on S side of a private forest road E of Leighton Farm.
History
Early C18 house, modified in later C19 (with new windows, barge boards and porch) when part of John Naylor's Leighton Estate. Naylor acquired the Estate in 1846-47 and embarked on an ambitious programme of building, principally Leighton Hall, church and Farm, which was largely completed by the mid 1850s. He continued to extend and improve the Estate until his death in 1889. His grandson, Captain J.M. Naylor, sold the Estate in 1931.
Exterior
Two-unit lobby entry house with entrance backing on to gable end stack. One-and-a-half storeys of timber framing in square panels with brick nogging painted white and on a rubble stone plinth. Slate roof (renewed late C20) with end brick stacks. Two-window front with doorway to R. Dormers have cusped barge boards and 2-light iron-frame casements with small panes. Similar window in earlier opening to L in lower storey; enlarged casement window to R. Doorway to R has a modern door in earlier opening, and in C19 timber-framed porch with barge boards similar to dormers. R side wall is rubble stone painted white; L side wall has single-storey brick lean-to painted white. Two-window rear has a centrally-placed boarded door, wood-framed casement to L and casement to R similar to front. Dormers are also similar to front.
Interior
Not inspected (November 1996).
Reason for designation
A well-preserved example of a late timber-framed small vernacular cottage, of additional interest for its association with the Leighton Estate and Naylor’s late C19 improvements there.
Nearby in the register
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- Leat to Park PoolWater Supply and Drainageunder 1 mi
- Bridge South East of Old Cable HouseAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- The Old Cable HouseAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.