Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Lower Woodhouse Farmhouse
Knighton, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 30 September 1985
- Locality
- Llanshay
- Community
- Knighton
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.34365, -3.01929
- Cadw reference
- 9036
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
Reached by a steep farm road to south of the Ludlow Road (approximately 1 1/2 miles east of Knighton).
History
C16 and C17 farmhouse set into hillside, later alterations.
Exterior
2-storey, 3-window E front in two parts, some coursed rubble, with raised gable to left and taller cross-range to right, slate roofs with tiled ridges of various levels, unusual upward curve to roofline over centre bay where frontage steps down; central brick stack. Weatherboarding to formerly jettied C16 left gable supported on carved brackets, the timber frame now concealed by stone ground floor and roughcast brick first floor. Loft ventilator opening under right gable, cambered headed openings below with cellar entrance below ground floor. Late C18 early C19 Gothic window to ground floor.
Tall rubble-walled cross-range facing north down hill, supported by twin raked buttresses. 2 lateral chimney breasts now with pitched roofs - 1 rubble heightened in brick to left, the other roughcast. Cross-frame windows to right of north wall; modern metal frame windows to south wall with some blocked openings. Evidence of break in plinth at angle to rear opposite main entrance suggests a blocked cross-passage.
Interior
Interior retains much C17 detailing; feather-stopped chamfered beams to main rooms and kitchen, counter-changing joists to ground floor left room which also has wide fireplace with massive timber lintel and stone flagged floor, wide oak floor boards, timber studding, panelled doors etc. C17 roof to cross-range with earlier roof to left both with ridge-beams and two-tier purlins.
Nearby in the register
- Long Barn Range at Lower Woodhouse FarmhouseAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Lower Pitts FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Llanshay FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Long Barn to South of Llanshay FarmhouseAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.