Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Porth Mawr House
Crickhowell, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Crickhowell, Powys, designated on 19 July 1963.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 19 July 1963
- Town
- Crickhowell
- Community
- Crickhowell
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.86035, -3.13774
- Cadw reference
- 7157
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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)
- 1898 · 232 Abergavenny (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 232 Abergavenny (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
At the junction of Brecon Road, High Street and New Road; enclosed behind medieval and later crenellated wall and reached by a short driveway N off New Road or through Porth Mawr gatehouse.
History
Regency mansion, said to have been completed by 1825. Built by the Seymour family following the pre-1810 fire damage to the C15 Cwrt-y-Carw.
Exterior
U-plan with later additions. 2-storey stucco fronts, hipped slate roofs with wide swept bracket eaves and classical eaves band; brick and rendered chimney stacks. 5-window main front, with rusticated quoins to ground floor, faces NW across garden. Small-pane sash windows, with shutters to 1st floor. Advanced central half-glazed porch under overall lean-to verandah on paved terrace; trellised uprights (altered to base) and fan-traceried spandrels.
Rendered left side adjoins rear of gateway at right angles; small-pane sash windows to 1st floor and lower 2-storey extension with external staircase to 1st floor porch. 1-window right side with tripartite sash windows; 3-centred arch entrance with panelled reveals to pointed double doors.
Later extensions to rear and remains of former service buildings such as laundry.
Interior
Interior much altered through modern conversion into flats.
Reason for designation
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- Porth MawrGatehouseunder 1 mi
- Porth-Mawr GatehouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Boundary wall running north from Porth Mawr Gate-house to Pen-y-dre LodgeDomesticunder 1 mi
- Coach-house at Porth Mawr & adjoining boundary walls to SW end and NE to Gate-house on Brecon RoadDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.