Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Slwch Farmhouse
Brecon, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 16 December 1976
- Town
- Brecon
- Community
- Brecon
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.94969, -3.36144
- Cadw reference
- 7034
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
About 2km E of town centre, reached by long drive on S side of Slwch Lane.
History
Early C19 rebuilding of earlier house.
Exterior
Two-storey house. Southern range has 3-window entrance front; pebbledashed. Slate hipped roof with flanking stacks and projecting wooden eaves. C20 glazing replaces sash windows 4 panes wide in reveals. Central 6 panelled door with fanlight of 4 panes; gabled open porch. Forecourt with iron railings on dwarf wall; gates to L end and opposite entrance to house. Rear 2-storey, 3-window lean-to with separate roof across whole width of house. Rear wall of lean-to of colourwashed stone rubble; lean-to porch. To right (NE) of house, lower 2-storey wing with slate roof, and 2 dormers set across eaves.
Reason for designation
Included as part of a group of early C19 buildings which includes Slwch farmhouse and the adjacent agricultural ranges, all with mutual group value.
Nearby in the register
- Barn and outbuildings range to SW of Slwch FarmhouseAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- St Eluned's Chapel and WellChapelunder 1 mi
- Castle Mound 800m NNW of Ty'n-y-CaeauMotteunder 1 mi
- Slwch CampHillfortunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.