Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Former Granary to the Malt House
Crickhowell, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II*
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 19 July 1963
- Date of amendment
- 14 February 2024
- Welsh name
- Granar gynt i’r Bracty
- Town
- Crickhowell
- Community
- Crickhowell
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.85942, -3.13578
- Cadw reference
- 7247
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
U-shaped group of building, set back from north side of Standard Street.
History
A probably early C18 granary, formerly part of the brewery known to have been in existence by 1718, established by the Rumsey family, possibly following a decline in their fortunes after the Civil War, and attached to their house. Some modern alterations, including the removal of the first floor.
Exterior
Granary building, formerly 2-storey, now 1-storey and attic. Rubble masonry, slate hipped roof to road end. Modern window and doors to front, now a shop. 3 modern dormers to E side overlooking the Little Malt House garden, eaves overhanging attic ventilation panels, casement windows with timber lintels and some blocked windows. Fewer windows to W side overlooking the Malt House garden.
Interior
The interior is of 10 bays and retains simple A-frame roof construction with dowelled timbers, overlapping purlins and ridge beam, lightly cambered collars of varying heights, pegged in pairs to the trusses and not tenoned in; tie beams removed and extra modern supports inserted. First floor partly retained to ends, at rear above stone flagged (floor and walls) former vat.
Reason for designation
Included for its special architectural interest as a surviving C18 granary building, and an important part of the group around the Malt House and Upper House.
Nearby in the register
- The Malt HouseIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Little Malt HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Upper HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Pigsty at Upper House FarmAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.