Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Draen including attached former byre
The Vale of Grwyney, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Grwyne Fechan, The Vale of Grwyney, Powys, designated on 19 November 1998.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 19 November 1998
- Locality
- Grwyne Fechan
- Community
- The Vale of Grwyney
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.88515, -3.10292
- Cadw reference
- 20853
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1856 · 42. Brecon. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1895 · Sheet 11. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1896 · 214 Talgarth (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Isolated house approximately 1.3km N of Llanbedr church, on steep hillside adjacent to a bridleway on E side of minor road through Grwyne Fechan.
History
A C17 house with a byre attached probably in early C18. The house originally consisted of a hall with lobby entry and 2 inner rooms. A porch was added to the front probably early C19.
Exterior
Built on a steeply sloping site with the byre at the uphill end and the house at the downhill end. The house is one-and-a-half storeys with a stable in the basement. The walls are of battered rubble sandstone, the house has a slate roof, the byre a corrugated metal roof. The house has a stone stack to L. To the front (N), on the L side of the house is a lean-to porch under a stone tile roof, which has renewed diamond mullions to a small front window. To R the house has a casement in an earlier opening and an inserted window below the eaves. Below to R is a stable door under a drip stone to the former stable in the basement. The R gable end has a 2-light attic casement inserted into an earlier opening with a drip stone. To the rear is a pentice to L and an outshut to R housing the stair. Beneath the pentice is a 3-light window with diamond mullions to L (lighting the former parlour), an inserted doorway in the centre and a sash window to R enlarged from an original opening. The outshut has a stone tile roof and a diamond-mullion stair light.
The byre has, on N side, a boarded door to L under a drip stone and a former doorway to R now a window with inserted diamond mullions. Against the gable end is a small ty bach. The rear has a blocked doorway to R and an opening to L.
Interior
Not inspected at time of survey (November 1997), but recorded by Jones and Smith as retaining a fireplace stair, part of the original partition screening off the dairy, which retains a salting slab.
Reason for designation
A good example of a sub-medieval Breconshire farm house, retaining a pentice and diamond mullion windows, features once common in the area.
Nearby in the register
- Barn at Henbant FachAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Henbant FachDomesticunder 1 mi
- Henbant FawrDomesticunder 1 mi
- Barn and Former Bakehouse at Henbant FawrAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.