Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Ystrad House
Knighton, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 30 September 1985
- Community
- Knighton
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.34466, -3.04627
- Cadw reference
- 8978
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
On a corner site partly below the road at the junction with Station Road.
History
Early C19 (in existence by 1835)
Exterior
2-storey 5-window roughcast front to U-plan house of earlier origins. Hipped slate roof; 1 brick stack to centre left, 1 rendered stack to right side elevation plus 1 brick stack to rear of left cross range; wide plastered eaves. 12 and 16-pane sash windows to 1st floor, some tall 4-pane casement windows below, with deep plain reveals and panelled splays internally. Classical open-pedimented doorpiece with recessed 6-panel door in semi-circular entrance with panelled soffit.
White rendered 2-window right hand elevation with lean-to. White roughcast left side elevation, with modern alterations, and rear with sash windows.
Reason for designation
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- 24 Station RoadCommercialunder 1 mi
- 23 Station RoadCommercialunder 1 mi
- TemesideDomesticunder 1 mi
- The Old Workshop (formerly Knighton Baptist Chapel)Commercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.