Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Old house at Bwlch Mawr
Nantmel, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Carmel, 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
- Carmel
- Community
- Nantmel
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.29404, -3.40451
- Cadw reference
- 84135
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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 W side of a minor road N of the A44, approximately 1.2km NE of Nantmel. The old house stands within a steel shed on the W side of the modern house.
History
A late-medieval timber-framed hall house converted to a storeyed house in the late C16 or early C17. It was remodelled with a central entrance in the early C18 (a NE window is dated 1712), and a stable was added c1800, which has subsequently been demolished. The house has been uninhabited since 1966 when a new house was built.
Exterior
A 1½-storey house of whitened rubble stone, slate roof and reduced stone stack to the L. The central doorway has an early C20 panelled door with round glazed panel, in an earlier opening. Windows, with glazing mostly missing, are 2-light to the R and 3-light to the L, under wooden lintels. The R-hand window has a date-inscribed jamb. Two raked dormers also have 2-light windows. In the rear are 2 raked dormers, of which the R-hand retains a horizontal-sliding sash window. A C20 window is lower L, enlarged from an earlier opening, and a window to the R is without glazing. On the L side is the roof slope of a former short rear wing, housing a back-kitchen, where a bread oven is exposed.
Interior
Parts of 2 cruck trusses are visible, one inside the house which is mostly concealed, the other a part of a truss embedded in the gable end when the fireplace was built. The sub-medieval hall, on the R side of the entrance, has a large fireplace with chamfered stone jambs and moulded timber lintel.
Reason for designation
Listed, notwithstanding its deteriorating condition, as a late medieval house with evidence of changes over subsequent centuries, retaining definite vernacular character and detail.
Nearby in the register
- Multi-purpose L-plan farm range at Bwlch Mawr FarmNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Church of St CynlloNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Water conduit at Maes-y-gelli FarmNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Aqueduct SE of Church of St CynlloNo class recordedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.