Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Cwm Derw
Abbey Cwmhir, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Bwlch-y-Sarnau, Abbey Cwmhir, Powys, designated on 3 September 2004.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- No class recorded
- Date of designation
- 3 September 2004
- Locality
- Bwlch-y-Sarnau
- Community
- Abbey Cwmhir
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.39824, -3.42618
- Cadw reference
- 83091
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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)
- 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 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
An isolated house reached by farm road through forestry approximately 4.1km N of Bwlch-y-Sarnau.
History
An early-C19 farmhouse shown on the 1843 Tithe map. The adjoining stable is later.
Exterior
A 2-storey 2-window house of rubble stone and slate roof, stone stack to the R (part fallen) and brick stack to the L. Openings in the lower storey have cambered stone heads. The doorway to the R has a boarded door. Windows are replacement wooden casements, 3-light to the R and 2-light to the L in the lower storey, and 2-light upper-storey windows beneath the eaves. The L gable end preserves the lintel of a former attic window. It also has a replaced window lower L under a cambered head, and inserted 4-pane sash window above it in a brick surround. Further L is the side wall of a rear outshut, with boarded door under a cambered head, and iron-framed attic window above it.
On the R side of the front is a vertical joint separating the house from the added stable. It has a small front window and smaller loft opening, above which is a stone ledge and pigeon holes. The gable end, partly collapsed, retains the jambs of a doorway on the L side and loft opening.
Interior
Not inspected.
Reason for designation
Listed, notwithstanding its deteriorating condition, as a small early C19 farmhouse with stable, a type once common in the region but now rarely surviving in original form.
Nearby in the register
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- Crugyn LlwydRound Barrowunder 1 mi
- Fowler's Arm Chair Stone Circle & Round Cairns, Banc DuStone Circleunder 1 mi
- Bryn Hafod Standing StoneStanding Stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.