Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Erwood Hall
Erwood, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 3 August 2001
- Locality
- Erwood
- Town
- Builth Wells
- Community
- Erwood
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.07853, -3.31771
- Cadw reference
- 25650
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
Situated on E side of main road at S end of the village.
History
Earlier C19 smaller gentry house. Marked on the Crickadarn Tithe map of 1842 as a holding of 58 acres (23.47 hectares) owned and occupied by David Evans.
Exterior
House, grey coursed squared stone with slate roofs and stone end stacks, the right end stack L-plan as the gable end breaks back. Two-storeys and attic, three-window range. Two added flat-roofed dormers with paired 4-pane casements. Georgian style formal front elevation, with centre pediment, painted timber modillion verges and moulded base, and lunette window with stone voussoirs. Ground and first floor casement windows with stone voussoirs, 6/6-pane above, 8/8-pane to ground floor. Centre door with fanlight and stone voussoir within earlier C20 stone enclosed flat-roofed porch with plain stepped cornice, large front arched doorway with stone voussoirs, radiating-bar fanlight and half-glazed double doors with side-lights.
C20 two-storey flat-roofed stone addition to right, one-window range to front and to S side. Rear wing with end stack.
Interior
Not available for inspection. Centre hall plan with principal rooms each side and staircase to rear.
Reason for designation
Included, notwithstanding extension to right, as a formal late Georgian house with well-detailed stonework.
Nearby in the register
- Pleasant ViewDomesticunder 1 mi
- Hepzibah Baptist ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- The SkreenDomesticunder 1 mi
- MaesclettwrDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.