Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Castle Farmhouse
Painscastle, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Painscastle, Powys, designated on 18 September 1960.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 18 September 1960
- Locality
- Painscastle
- Community
- Painscastle
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.10759, -3.21751
- Cadw reference
- 8763
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)
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1637 · Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 197 Hay (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Lies on east side of Painscastle castle immediately abutting the ramparts.
Exterior
C18. Two storeys. To north a lower range - former hackney stable converted to domestic accommodation; to rear is C18 wing under catslide roof and C19 taller gabled wing. Rubble stone, overpainted, slate roof, two end stacks. Central modern glazed door, five-window range, all sixteen-pane sashes renewed under timber lintels. Metal framed windows to rear.
Interior
Much modernised. C18 stairs with beaded square newel and ogee string moulding. Cellar and attics.
Reason for designation
An imposing Georgian facade overlooking a small green to E, group value with Upper House and the castle earthworks.
Nearby in the register
- Upper HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Pain's CastleMotte and Baileyunder 1 mi
- Newhouse BarnAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- NewhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.