Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Tiled House
Whitton, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Rhos-y-Meirch, Whitton, Powys, designated on 30 September 1985.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 30 September 1985
- Locality
- Rhos-y-Meirch
- Community
- Whitton
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.32388, -3.06093
- Cadw reference
- 9039
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
By the roadside with small front garden (approximately 1 3/4 miles S of Knighton).
History
Probably C17.
Exterior
1-storey and attic, rubble stone front with some later alterations; slightly lower range off axis to left; 3 irregularly-spaced windows. Slate roofs (replacing original stone tiles), central rubble stack heightened in brick supported by an approximately 5ft wide cross-wall which projects to rear; varied roof pitches - steepest to centre, continuous ridge to right with flatter pitch front and steeper pitch to rear. Single flat-roofed dormer to centre front and 2 to rear pitch. Pitched roof dormers to right, front and rear pitches.
Originally a 'lobby entry' house. Blocked door and small lobby beside stack with stairs opposite and hall to right. Main entrance now in left extension and another boarded door is under pitched roof porch to right leading to part of the house now disused and in poor condition. Rubble gable and wall to left; timber studded right gable end wall with adjoining later 2 bay corrugated iron roof barn, wattle and daub retained and carpenters marks visible.
Once part of the Gwernaffed estate.
Interior
Interior retains feather-stop chamfer beam to ground floor right room, with rougher beams to rest of the house.
Nearby in the register
- Offa's Dyke: Section extending 200m S to Pool House, Rhos-y-MeirchLinear Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Bowdlers CottageTransportunder 1 mi
- Offa's Dyke: Section extending through Great Ffrydd Wood 1693m S to footpath leading to Woodhouse LaneLinear Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Farm Range at Gwernaffel FarmAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.