Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Farm Range to N of Litton Court
Whitton, Powys, Wales
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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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (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.