Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Stone House
Beguildy, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Beguildy, Powys, designated on 24 August 2004.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- No class recorded
- Date of designation
- 24 August 2004
- Locality
- Beguildy
- Community
- Beguildy
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.41440, -3.21112
- Cadw reference
- 83083
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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)
- 1637 · Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 165 Montgomery (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Approximately 1.8km NNW of Beguildy, reached by footpath through Upper Gwernerin Farm on the W side of the B4355.
History
A mid C17 lobby-entry house. Subsequent minor alterations include C19 dormers and slate roof (original stone tiles are retained in the garden) and external access to the cellar.
Exterior
A 1½-storey house of rubble-stone walls, slate roof to the front and corrugated iron and corrugated asbestos-cement sheets to the rear, and central stone stack. Openings have drip moulds. The central entrance has a boarded door with inserted glazed panel. To its L is a 4-light ovolo-moulded wooden mullioned and transomed window. The window on the R side has been replaced. Two added gabled dormers have replacement mid C20 windows. In the L (downhill) gable end is a boarded cellar door, 4-pane lower storey window and 2-light attic casement, all insertions. The rear has an inserted doorway L of centre with half-glazed door and drip mould, a small central stair light and 2-light casement further R. A narrow cellar opening is to the R. In the uphill gable end the lower-storey window has been removed and boarded up, above which is an inserted 2-light attic window.
Interior
The house retains its original lobby entry and near-symmetrical plan, with back-to-back fireplaces. The hall on the L has a fireplace with cambered lintel and oven. To the L of the fireplace is a stone stair. A cross beam has a stepped stop. A box-framed partition divides the room from a small unheated parlour. The kitchen on the R side has a fireplace with a plain lintel and bread oven. A box-framed partition dividing off the service room has survived partially, obscured by a C19 inserted stair.
Reason for designation
Listed for its special architectural interest as a regional house retaining original character and detail, and almost unaltered internal plan.
Nearby in the register
- Barn E of Stone HouseNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Crugyn Tump Castle MoundMotteunder 1 mi
- Barn & stable at Church House FarmNo class recorded1 mi
- Church House Farm, including attached cow houseNo class recorded1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.