Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Herbert Hall
Crickhowell, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Crickhowell, Powys, designated on 25 September 1986.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 25 September 1986
- Community
- Crickhowell
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.85711, -3.13949
- Cadw reference
- 7166
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Situated at the top of Bridge Street near the junction with High Street and set back behind a walled courtyard; prominently sited above River Usk.
History
Mid C19 Regency-style rebuilding of an earlier C17 house of the Herbert family shown on map of 1760 and view of 1811; at one time incorporated the Beaufort Estate office.
Exterior
3-storey, 5-window scribed stucco front; slate roof with wide bracket eaves; end chimney stacks with grouped octagonal brick flues. Central cross gable with blind octofoil roundel. Recessed windows mostly replaced to 2nd floor, 12-pane sash windows to 1st and ground floors. Broad tripartite window to centre with moulded cornice and bracketed cill, 2-pane sashes flanking central blind arched opening and panelled base. Pitched roof porch below with ironwork ornamentation to uprights, spandrels and pediments. Half-glazed door with fanlight; lozenge leaded half-glazed door to right.
Interior
Interior retains ornate Jacobean open well staircase reused from previous house with four-centred arched to right; plaster ceilings with cornices to hall and dining room.
Reason for designation
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- 3 Bridge StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 5 & 6 Bridge StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 8 Bridge StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 39 Bridge StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.