Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Ashfield Farmhouse
Nantmel, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Doldowlod, Nantmel, Powys, designated on 28 February 2005.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- No class recorded
- Date of designation
- 28 February 2005
- Locality
- Doldowlod
- Community
- Nantmel
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.26810, -3.49825
- Cadw reference
- 84106
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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
Reached by farm road on the E side of the A470 and approximately 0.7km NE of Llanwrthwl.
History
An early C19 farmhouse shown on the 1840 Tithe map. A granary was subsequently added and is shown on the 1889 Ordnance Survey.
Exterior
A 2-storey farmhouse of roughcast rubble-stone walls, slate roof and 3 stone stacks. The front comprises a 2-window main house and a single-unit back kitchen further L. In the main house the entrance has a panelled door in a wooden porch on a modern dwarf wall. Windows are hornless sashes, which are 16-pane to the R of the entrance, 12-pane to the L. The back kitchen has a similar 12-pane window. Corresponding upper-storey windows are all 12-pane hornless sashes. A cellar window is beneath the back-kitchen window. In the L gable end is an inserted window upper R and 4-pane horizontal-sliding sash window upper L. Set back against the L gable end is a lower implement store and granary, which is part rubble stone, part weatherboarded, under a slate roof. The rear of the house has a central wooden cross window lighting the stair. To its L is a 2-light iron-framed casement window in the upper storey. To the R of centre is an outshut, formerly housing the scullery and dairy. In its L side wall is a 2-light iron-framed window, of which the L casement is covered by a mesh. In the rear wall is a 2-light window. To the R of the outshut is a lean-to canopy over the boarded back door, with inserted window to its R.
The granary projects beyond the rear wall of the main house. In the gable end facing the rear of the house is a boarded granary door reached by detachable ladder stair. In the opposite gable end are double boarded doors.
Interior
Not inspected.
Reason for designation
Listed for its special architectural interest as a well-preserved early C19 farmhouse, a type once common in the region but rarely well preserved.
Nearby in the register
- Stable at Ashfield FarmNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Milestone on A470No class recordedunder 1 mi
- WyesideNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Standing Stone, Llanwrthwl ChurchyardStanding Stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.