Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Buttington Old Hall Farmhouse
Trewern, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Trewern, Powys, designated on 11 March 1981.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 11 March 1981
- Community
- Trewern
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.67474, -3.09710
- Cadw reference
- 7903
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 1795 map "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1795 · To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most… (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 151 Welshpool (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1916 · Sheet 60. Shrewsbury. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Located behind farm buildings, back from the main road on sloping ground, 7probably originally a platform site.
Exterior
C18 2-storey and attic rubble stone farmhouse. Rubble stone, the upper floor of brick, all painted on S. front elevation. Slate roofs. Two storeys and attics, two parallel roofed blocks, the E side probably earlier, of stone, heightened in brickwork. Large brick stack central to valley. Lean-to outshut along N side of W block, containing farm entrance.
Main entrance over 8 steps on S elevation of E block; half-glazed door with overlight and moulded and panelled doorcase contained in open trellis porch. Small-paned timber windows, but C19 canted oriel window on ground floor of E block.
Interior
Interior has staircase with slender turned balusters.
Reason for designation
An unusual example of an C18 farmhouse, although probably a major remodelling of an earlier building.
Nearby in the register
- Cletterwood FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Garbett's HallDomesticunder 1 mi
- The Green Dragon InnCommercialunder 1 mi
- Church of All SaintsReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.