Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Fronrhydnewydd
Abbey Cwmhir, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Tyfaenor, 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
- Tyfaenor
- Community
- Abbey Cwmhir
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.32572, -3.35291
- Cadw reference
- 83093
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)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 179 Rhyader (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Approximately 2.5km ESE of the parish church, reached by minor road on the N side of a minor road between Abbey Cwmhir and Crossgates.
History
A farmstead purchased for the Abbey Cwmhir Estate in 1824 by Thomas Wilson. Fronrhydnewydd is shown on the 1839 Tithe map but the present house is later, one of a number of estate farm houses built in the second half of the C19 to a similar design (c.f. Brickyard Cottage, Llwyn-onn, both now altered), and is shown on the 1889 Ordnance Survey.
Exterior
A 2½-storey house of rubble stone, slate roof and central blue-brick stack. Windows are iron-framed casements with small-pane Gothic glazing characteristic of the Abbey Cwmhir estate. Openings to the side and rear are under segmental brick heads. The gable-end front is slate-hung and has a 3-light window in the lower storey, two 2-light windows above, and single-light attic window. The entrance is in a lean-to porch set back to the R, with replacement door. Behind the porch is an added C20 brick lean-to with boarded door and casement. Above the lean-tos is a single-light stair window. The rear has two 2-light windows in the lower storey, with boarded door to the R. Above are two 2-light upper-storey windows, and a single-light attic window.
Interior
Not inspected.
Reason for designation
Listed for its special architectural interest as a well-preserved C19 estate farmhouse of definite character.
Nearby in the register
- Keepers LodgeNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Ty FaenorDomesticunder 1 mi
- Llywy CottageNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Cwmhir AbbeyReligious, Ritual and Funerary1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.