Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Trewern Farm (North) 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
- Locality
- Trewern
- Community
- Trewern
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.70458, -3.07846
- Cadw reference
- 7919
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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 in the flood plain of the River Severn, near the line of Offa's Dyke and to the north-east of Trewern Hall.
History
Early C17.
Exterior
Farmhouse. Timber framed, now encased in white painted brickwork with some rubble stone. Stone cladding on N side of wing carried up in brickwork, probably early C19, and brickwork of gable ends has cogged strings.
Slate roof; old slates of irregular widths on main S elevation. Two storeys, main range of two bays with apparently contemporary cross wing at N end, of 2 bays forming the original parlour end. Outshut on W side of main range now containing utility room. Door on E elevation of wing now converted to window and second window blocked.
Interior
A boarded door in main range opens on to living hall, with lateral fireplace on W side and chamfered and ogee stopped ceiling beams. Kitchen at S end. Timber framed partitions in cross wing, with some surviving wattle and daub infilling, and lateral fireplace in E bay. Roof has heavy principal rafters, collars and double purlins, with angle-set ridge set into apex. Short straight windbraces to main range roof.
Reason for designation
Listed as a farmhouse placed in the C17 to open up the productive lands of the Severn valley floor.
Nearby in the register
- Trewern CottageDomesticunder 1 mi
- Trewern HallDomesticunder 1 mi
- Upper Farm FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- The Olde Post OfficeCommunicationsunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.