Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Farm Range to N of Litton Court
Whitton, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Litton, Whitton, Powys, designated on 16 March 1992.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 16 March 1992
- Locality
- Litton
- Community
- Whitton
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.29054, -3.07421
- Cadw reference
- 9102
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
Sited along the public road and running back opposite the main range.
History
Late C19.
Exterior
L-shape range, part of planned courtyard layout. Good quality coursed stone rubble walls, slate roof, cambered heads to yard openings, triangular ventilators to roadside elevations.
West range incorporates two-storey cowhouses with loft; rear feeding passage, halved and pegged trusses. The end nearest the house was traphouse with two-horse stable. The front of the north range has been partially demolished and the roof extended to form a modern covered yard. Stone built pigsties complete the courtyard.
Reason for designation
Included as part of a very prominent grouping of distinctive charactr beside the Whitton to Evenjobb road.
Nearby in the register
- Farm Range adjoining Litton on E sideAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Litton CourtDomesticunder 1 mi
- Whitton CourtDomesticunder 1 mi
- Farm Range (B) at Whitton CourtAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.