Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Malthouse at Alltmawr Isaf
Erwood, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 23 March 1962
- Locality
- Alltmawr
- Town
- Builth Wells
- Community
- Erwood
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.11852, -3.36750
- Cadw reference
- 25655
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 below and to S of barn at Alltmawr Isaf, opposite farmhouse.
History
Sustantial lofted outbuilding, apparently earlier C19, but possibly of two phases. Marked on the Alltmawr Tithe map of 1840. Once used as a malthouse and in deteriorating condition 2000.
Exterior
Outbuilding, rubble stone with corrugated iron roofs, large, two-storey, L-plan. Front has big projecting wing to right with gable end small roundel with stone voussoirs over first floor two blocked large windows and ground floor full-width weatherboarded opening with long chamfered timber lintel. Quadrant moulded course of projecting stones over lintel. Left jamb is rounded. Right side wall has big external flight of stairs to loft door, the slate roof carried down over, on wood post. Left side wall has one first floor window.
Left side of main range has 2 upper windows under eaves, one a cross-window. Ground floor single long chamfered lintel over window to left and door to right, quadrant moulded stones over lintel. Windowless S gable, some late C19 or early C20 black brick in quoins, rear wall bowing outward 2000. Upper gable has similar apex roundel over first and ground floor windows with timber lintels.
Interior
Interior not available for inspection.
Reason for designation
Included as a substantial lofted outbuilding, said to have been a malthouse, of group value with farmhouse and barn.
Nearby in the register
- Alltmawr IsafDomesticunder 1 mi
- Barn range at Alltmawr IsafAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Milestone at HenalltTransportunder 1 mi
- Hendy Long HutRectangular hutunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.