Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Gorse Farmhouse
Llandrindod Wells, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 30 September 1985
- Community
- Llandrindod Wells
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.24383, -3.36369
- Cadw reference
- 9067
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 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Situated about 1\2 mile east of the town and reached by a short farm road. Ground slopes down to the west.
History
Probably C18
Exterior
2-storey whitewashed rubble farmhouse. Slate roof with 2 later brick chimney stacks. 3 windows wide, offset to the right; 2-light and central 4-light casements to 1st floor rising to eaves level; 3-light casements to ground floor with voussoir lintels and keystones, flanking broad pitched roof; rubble porch with blank tympanum above entrance. Original plan-form with centre passage and staircase survives. Central kitchen extension to rear facing square farmyard.
Lower rubble barn, heightened in brick, adjoining to left; probably with cross-passage, now blocked, to right within blank area of house.
Reason for designation
Good unspoiled example of a local building type.
Nearby in the register
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- Bailey Einon FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.