Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Bowdlers Cottage
Knighton, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 30 September 1985
- Locality
- Mount Flirt
- Community
- Knighton
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.32583, -3.04791
- Cadw reference
- 9038
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
At the roadside (B4355) approximately 1 mile from the centre of Knighton.
History
Late C18/early C19 small single storey coursed rubble toll house - the only one of five such houses remaining on the edge of Knighton.
Exterior
Hipped slate roof, pyramidal over splayed entrance bay to centre front, vertically boarded door. Voussoir lintels to entrance and window openings (once timber-frame casements).
Building badly decayed at time of inspection (June 1985).
Nearby in the register
- Tiled HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Offa's Dyke: Section extending 200m S to Pool House, Rhos-y-MeirchLinear Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Offa's Dyke: Section extending through Great Ffrydd Wood 1693m S to footpath leading to Woodhouse LaneLinear Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Downton Inlet HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.