Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Cwmilward
Whitton, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 16 March 1992
- Locality
- Cascob
- Community
- Whitton
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.29381, -3.12655
- Cadw reference
- 9084
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 at the head of a small valley about half a mile north west of Cascob Church.
History
Late C18.
Exterior
Two storeys with rear outshut under catslide roof, coursed rubble blocks, slate roof. Large stone stack with offset to west gable with adjoining bread oven. Small brick stack to front right and small stone stack to rear outshut. Symmetrical front, four windows flanking central door with flat stone voussoir arches, modern casements. Recess for date stone - now missing.
Lean-to outbuilding on east gable end - stone rubble plinth, weatherboarded frame, tin roof.
Random arrangement of farm buildings on the slope to the rear of the house, all weatherboarded, timber frame over stone rubble plinths with iron roofs. Combination barn incorporating lambing/shearing bays with wool loft and adjoining stable and cowshed with hay loft. Hay barn at right angles. Detached small granary.
Interior
One main room on ground floor with heavy squared beams and squared joists and large open fireplace, elm newel stairs rise from smaller end room. Open tie beams trusses, rough sawn.
Reason for designation
Listed as good example of a small, unspoilt upland farmhouse.
Nearby in the register
- Church of St MichaelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Rectory HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Telephone Call-box adjacent to the churchyard gate at CascobCommunicationsunder 1 mi
- The SchoolhouseEducationunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.