Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pen-Rhiw
Llangattock, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 21 October 1998
- Locality
- Cwm Onnau
- Community
- Llangattock
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.84388, -3.17750
- Cadw reference
- 20736
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
Approximately 2.4km SW of Llangattock church. Located off the S side of the road which leads from Llangattock to Beaufort. Built on a slope which rises to the Mynydd Llangattock.
History
C17-C18 farmhouse with downhill cow house, impoved in the late C19. Marked on the Llangattock Tithe Map of 1845 as house and garden owned by Joseph Bailey of Glanusk Park.
Exterior
Two-storey, 2-window house with attached byre, of battered whitened rubble stone walls. The house has a slate roof and masonry end stacks heightened in brick. Added lean-tos to rear. The front has a gabled porch to the R with a boarded and ribbed door under an arched head. The window openings are offset to the L and have segmental stone heads and stone sills. Hoodmoulds to lower storey. The windows to the R are wider. All the openings contain small-pane Breconshire windows. The cow house to the R is lower and has a roof partly of stone tiles, and partly slate. To the front it has boarded doors under timber lintels to L and R of centre. In the N gable end is a loft hatch under a timber lintel offset to the L. Below it is an added 1-storey lean-to with boarded door. The S gable end is rendered, with a window offset to the L in the upper storey and a small bunker at ground level. To the rear are 2 added lean-tos; that to the R is almost full height with a C20 red brick stack and casement window. To the rear of the byre is a further lean-to; a boarded door leads into the byre.
Interior
No access to interior at time of inspection (December 1997).
Reason for designation
Listed for the special interest of its distinctive early origins and in-keeping estate improvements in C19.
Nearby in the register
- Barn and attached ranges at Pen-CilauAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Pen-CilauDomesticunder 1 mi
- Coed Pentwyn HillfortHillfortunder 1 mi
- Llangattock Tramroad InclinesTramroadunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.