Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Neuadd House
Llanfrynach, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Neuadd, Brecon, Llanfrynach, Powys, designated on 28 July 2005.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 28 July 2005
- Locality
- Neuadd
- Town
- Brecon
- Community
- Llanfrynach
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.85712, -3.40973
- Cadw reference
- 84830
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 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (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)
- 1856 · 42. Brecon. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 231 Merthyr Tydfil (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Situated in own grounds just S of the dam of the Upper Neuadd Reservoir.
History
Dated 1896 MTUDC, built for Merthyr Tydfil Urban District Council in association with the Neuadd reservoirs.
Exterior
House, purple rock-faced squared stone with grey sandstone ashlar dressings and slate roofs. Two storeys, with bargeboards to gables and renewed casement windows, some with top-lights. S front has gable to right and large corniced ridge stack just left of gable. Gable has pair of windows each floor in flush rusticated ashlar surrounds with flush sills, each with casement pair window. Centre long narrow stair-light, single casement with top light in similar ashlar surround. Left projecting narrow gable with large cross-window in similar surround above entrance. Entrance has door in ovolo-moulded ashlar surround with lintel in a flush band under another ashlar band, slightly stepped forward to jetty the upper floor, the forward projection cut back for 18 and 96 carved each side of the doorhead. Sunk centre panel with M.T.U.D.C. in raised letters. There is a small lean-to in angle to left with coped parapet and small ashlar-framed single light.
Right end has large lean-to with slate-hung front wall over conservatory with renewed glazing, canted S end and rock-faced purple stone low walls.
Interior
Not available for inspection.
Reason for designation
Included for its special historic interest as a well-built late Victorian house of definite quality and character, built as part of the Neuadd reservoir system.
Nearby in the register
- Dam at the Upper Neuadd ReservoirWater Supply and Drainageunder 1 mi
- Octagonal building at Lower Neuadd ReservoirWater Supply and Drainageunder 1 mi
- Lower Neuadd Standing StoneStanding Stoneunder 1 mi
- Llwyn-on FarmsteadFarmsteadunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.