Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Ashfield
Crickhowell, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 25 September 1986
- Community
- Crickhowell
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.86105, -3.13698
- Cadw reference
- 7242
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 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
On an elevated site at the bottom of Rectory Road on the corner with Brecon Road; reached by a short driveway entered between rubble gate piers and pointed wooden gates.
History
Early C19 (on 1840 Tithe Map)
Exterior
Regency 2-storey house with stucco, partly scribed fronts; slate roofs, wide bracketed and panelled eaves, 3 cement rendered chimney stacks. Main front is of 3 windows, right hand bay set back and with recessed door beyond; 16-pane sash windows to 1st floor, 20-pane below with cills just above ground level. Flat-roofed verandah with boarded ceiling to left 2 bays supported on cast iron cylindrically grouped uprights (some missing); returns to gable ended entrance front; 12-pane sash window above 6-panel door with moulded architrave, panelled reveals, some panels of imitation bamboo type; 5-pane fanlight.
Roughcast rear with segmental headed window to staircase; slate roof cross range to right rear with sash windows.
Interior
Interior retains contemporary staircase with moulded tread-ends and scroll-ended newel posts.
Nearby in the register
- 1 Llanbedr RoadDomesticunder 1 mi
- 2 Llanbedr RoadDomesticunder 1 mi
- 3 Llanbedr RoadDomesticunder 1 mi
- 4 Llanbedr RoadDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.