Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Brookhouse Farmhouse
Knighton, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Garth, Knighton, Powys, designated on 30 September 1985.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 30 September 1985
- Locality
- Garth
- Community
- Knighton
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.33961, -3.06526
- Cadw reference
- 9032
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)
- 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)
- 1899 · 180 Knighton (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Approximately 2/3 mile SW of Knighton and reached from the road to Cwmgilla, just off and below the Llandrindod Wells road. Set behind forecourt.
History
Early C19
Exterior
3-storey symmetrical front to house of earlier origins including lower 2-storey adjoining range to right; later alterations. Coursed rubble (stones diminishing in size towards eaves), slate roof, boarded eaves and brick end stacks. 3-windows wide, all 3-light metal-frame casements with voussoir lintels. Only two windows to 2nd floor with central blank masonry space. 4-panel and boarded recessed central door under semi-circular hood with 6-pane semi-circular fanlight.
Possilbly C16 2-storey range to right with masonry partly bonded in. Slate roof, brick stack, casement windows and boarded door at entrance to former screens (?) passage with stairs leading off to the right. Kitchen with feather-stop chamfer beam to right and hall to left. Cat-slide roof to rear with part rendered rubble chimney stack heightened in brick beside rear entrance to passage.
Rubble gable end and rear wall to main house with few windows, some with cambered heads and 1 metal frame. No second floor windows.
Nearby in the register
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- Old Fire StationCivilunder 1 mi
- 29 Market StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 30 Market StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.