Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Service Building at Mathafarn
Glantwymyn, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Mathafarn, Glantwymyn, Powys, designated on 5 August 2004.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- No class recorded
- Date of designation
- 5 August 2004
- Locality
- Mathafarn
- Community
- Glantwymyn
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.62495, -3.76343
- Cadw reference
- 83042
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)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Located immediately W of the house, the doorway facing the house.
History
Service range, probably C17. It is likely to have been a bakehouse and brewhouse.
Exterior
Single-storey range of rubble stone with traces of lime-wash, on a boulder plinth under a slate roof, with stone end stack to N. Entrance to L of E side containing a planked door, with 3-light wooden window to its R. outh gable end has a 2-light wooden window under a segmental yellow brick head.
Interior
One-unit interior with 2 brick ovens to the N wall.
Reason for designation
Listed as a well-preserved sub-medieval service building and for group value with Mathafarn House and gate piers.
Nearby in the register
- MathafarnDomesticunder 1 mi
- Gate piers at MathafarnNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Farm Range SW of Poesnant FarmNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Poesnant FarmNo class recordedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.