Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Siambr-wen
Pen-y-bont-Fawr, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Cwm-fedw, Pen-y-bont-Fawr, Powys, designated on 23 May 2003.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- No class recorded
- Date of designation
- 23 May 2003
- Locality
- Cwm-fedw
- Community
- Pen-y-bont-Fawr
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.80129, -3.36874
- Cadw reference
- 81216
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesLlyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of WalesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 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 · 136 Bala (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
To the west side of the minor road from Penybontfawr to Cwm Fedw, about 1 km south-west of the village.
History
Said to be on a site of considerable antiquity, Siambr-wen is a small farmhouse of the C18 or earlier, possibly built in two periods. The front range was modernised in the early C19.
In 1839 it was recorded as a farmstead of the Wynnstay estate, tenanted by John Ashford with about 63 acres (25.52 hectares). It is now a private house, the few remaining adjacent farm buildings being in different occupation.
Exterior
A two-storey, two-window farmhouse facing east, with a long central rear wing also of two storeys but with a slightly lower roof eaves. The house is in white-painted quasi-rubble with slate roofs. The front range has a hipped roof with large stone chimneys at each end. The rear wing has a gabled roof with no surviving chimney. Small single storey annexe in the south-west angle between the main range and the wing, at former fireplace position.
At front (east) the house has flush-framed small-pane mullion and transom casement windows in segmentally arched openings below, and smaller similar mullion windows above against the eaves. Modern porch at centre. At the rear of the main range is a similar upper window south of the rear wing, and a small window to the ground storey north of the rear wing. Moderate eaves projection all round; large chimney stacks in similar white painted stonework
The rear wing has windows and door to the north elevation but its rear elevation to the south is blind. In the north elevation are three ground storey windows in segmentally arched openings and a door within a modern porch, and two upper windows probably in altered openings.
Interior
Siambr-wen retains a large fireplace at each end of the main range, and a lateral fireplace in the south side of the rear wing.
Reason for designation
A vernacular farmhouse well preserved as modernised in the early C19.
Nearby in the register
- Ty-isaf farmhouseNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Farmhouse with attached Cruck Barn at Peniarth-uchafNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Ty'n-y-caeauNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Plas-newydd (former vicarage)Domesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.