Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Lower Pitts Farmhouse
Knighton, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Stanage, Knighton, Powys, designated on 30 September 1985.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 30 September 1985
- Locality
- Stanage
- Community
- Knighton
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.34499, -3.00953
- Cadw reference
- 9044
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 1637 map "Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1637 · Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV.Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. a. England ab sich: Shire:15-17, 33 (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
Reached along Pitts Lane, a narrow road running for 1/4 mile south off the Ludlow Road at Milebrook. Farmhouse set above and with gable end to the lane.
History
Probably C17 with later alterations.
Exterior
Low box-frame farmhouse, 1-storey and attic, roughcast south-west elevation, 2-storey north-east elevation with north-west exposed timber-frame. Low stone cross gable to south-east end, stone gable to north-west end. Modern slate roof with undulating ridge, large square roughcast stone stack to centre of south-west elevation with stepped brick base to brick stem. Brick stack to north-east elevation, stone stack heightened in brick to cross gable.
1-storey hipped roof extension to south-east corner. 3 pitched roof dormers with casement windows to south-west elevation. Modern metal frame casements between roughcast buttresses, modern door, modern metal window frames to north-east elevation and modern door under pitched hood. Second door blocked to right. Entrance and casement window to north-west end wall.
Nearby in the register
- The HendreDomesticunder 1 mi
- Long Barn Range at Lower Woodhouse FarmhouseAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Lower Woodhouse FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Lodge to Stanage Park (formerly a School)Domesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.