Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Lower Broad Heath Farmhouse
Presteigne, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 26 March 1985
- Locality
- Broad Heath
- Community
- Presteigne
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.26351, -2.96932
- Cadw reference
- 8932
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1637 "Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Large farm house close to Hindwell Brook and reached by a farm road running south from Broad Heath Common.
History
The C17 wing has strong historical associations with Charles 1 who spent a night here in 1645 after the battle of Naseby.
Exterior
Complex building of several main building periods from C17 to early C20. The entrance block is 3 storeys 3 windows wide, brickwork of 2 periods, hipped tiled roof with wide eaves, tall brick stacks with stepped cornices (one mid-roof stack), stone wall footings. Modern 3-light window frames, top storey rising through eaves, lower storeys with cambered brick heads. Open timberwork porch under tiled hood.
Side elevation to north of 2 bays with return gablet through eaves to right, windows and dummies with freestone keyblocks. Timber studding to half-hipped rear gable. Lower C17 block of 2 storeys with cross wing to right, old brickwork with rectangular hood moulds in brick. Steep tiled roofs, central stack with brick stem, curved bargeboards, wide eaves. Modern 3 light casements to left, 2-light openings to right (blocked to gable and W side. Further extensions to south.
Nearby in the register
- Broad Heath HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Upper Broad Heath FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Cat and FiddleCommercialunder 1 mi
- Wegnall CottageDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.