Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Gliffaes Fach
Llanfihangel Cwmdu with Bwlch and Cathedine, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 21 October 1998
- Locality
- Myarth
- Community
- Llanfihangel Cwmdu with Bwlch and Cathedine
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.87535, -3.21506
- Cadw reference
- 20670
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 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
On S side of minor road between Penmyarth and Bwlch, approximately 1.2km E of Llangynidr Bridge.
History
Early C19 house probably enlarged and modernised later C19.
Exterior
Two-storey, 3-window house with a lower wing behind to R and a stable and tack room stepped down at the L end. Rubble stone, the main house with roughcast and cream-painted front, and slate roof with white-brick stacks to the centre and ends of the main house. The main house has 12-pane horned sash windows. Two equally-placed upper storey windows are under gablets. In the lower storey is a doorway L of centre with a half-lit panelled door and 3-pane overlight. At the L end is a boarded door to the stable and stone steps down to a boarded door to the tack room, separated from the stable by a butt joint. The tack room has a doorway to the rear under a big stone lintel, the stable has a doorway and a 2-light window in a brick surround with a central loft opening under a stone segmental head. The rear of the house is 2-window with 9-pane sashes in inserted openings with brick jambs and a renewed door lower L. To L, in the angle with the rear wing, is an added outshut with C20 windows. The rear wing has 9-pane sashes in the side wall and an end stone stack.
Interior
Not inspected at time of survey (August 1997).
Reason for designation
Listed for its special interest as a C19 farmhouse retaining good historic character.
Nearby in the register
- Usk CottageDomesticunder 1 mi
- Cyffredyn CottageDomesticunder 1 mi
- Gazebo including attached kitchen garden walls at GliffaesGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Panteague Upper Bridge (Canal Bridge No 129)Transportunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.