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Cwm Gu Cottage including attached barn
Llanfihangel Cwmdu with Bwlch and Cathedine, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Tretower, Crickhowell, Llanfihangel Cwmdu with Bwlch and Cathedine, Powys, designated on 19 July 1963.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 19 July 1963
- Welsh name
- Bwthyn Cwm Gu gan gynnwys ysgubor sydd ynghlwm wrtho
- Locality
- Tretower
- Town
- Crickhowell
- Community
- Llanfihangel Cwmdu with Bwlch and Cathedine
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.88090, -3.16402
- Cadw reference
- 6674
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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)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1963 · Map No. 15 - Local Government Commission for Wales : [Definitive maps showing proposed… (National Library of Scotland)
Cadw's description
Location
Approximately 1.4km ESE of Tretower church on S side of a minor road between Tretower and Crickhowell.
History
Built in 1633 (date on lintel) and consisting of a hall with pantry and unheated parlour, beyond which was an attached byre. The original byre was replaced by the present barn probably early C18. The windows were renewed late C20.
Exterior
Two-storey cottage of rubble sandstone with tile roof, and stone stack with diagonal shaft to L end. The front has a pentice carried on 7 brackets (which are continuations of the internal cross-beams) and with stone tile roof. The doorway at L end has stop-chamfer surround and a shaped door head, above which is inscribed '1633 + H:C'. Above the doorway is a small casement. Also casement windows to centre and R. The barn attached to R gable end is lower (creasing of an earlier byre or barn is visible at a higher level in gable end of house) and of rubble stone with slate roof. Full-height double doors to the cart passage are centrally placed under a canopy; a boarded door to R has a stone lintel. Rear of house has inserted casement windows; the barn has full-height double doors to cart passage.
Interior
Lobby-entry, 2-unit plan. In the lower storey are cross beams with crude chamfers and stepped stops. Fireplace stairs in stone now said to be replaced in wood.
Reason for designation
A good example of a small sub-medieval house with excellent retention of original detail.
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