Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Trewern Farm (North) Farmhouse
Trewern, Powys, Wales
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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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1795 "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).
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.