Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Gwernvale Cottage
Crickhowell, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 25 September 1986
- Locality
- Gwernvale
- Community
- Crickhowell
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.86513, -3.14038
- Cadw reference
- 7267
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 steeply rising ground beside Cwmbeth Brook at right angles to the road and reached by a short driveway entered between rubble gate piers.
History
Part of the Gwernvale Estate. Late Georgian early to mid C19 (on 1840 Tithe Map)
Exterior
2-storey, 3-window scribed stucco front with rusticated quoins; slate roofs, wide bracket eaves, rendered end chimney stacks. Recessed 12-pane sash windows and bay window with sash glazing to ground floor left. Central open pedimented doorcase with advanced cornice and pilasters; 5-pane fanlight and modern doors. Rendered left end wall with ornamental bargeboards to asymmetrical gable. Similar right end wall with remodelled range to rear, sash windows and 2-storey splayed bay with dentilled cornice.
Nearby in the register
- The White Hart Inn PHCommercialunder 1 mi
- Glan NantDomesticunder 1 mi
- TygwynDomesticunder 1 mi
- Pen-y-Dre CottageDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.