Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Upper House
Old Radnor, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Evenjob, Old Radnor, Powys, designated on 15 February 1993.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 15 February 1993
- Locality
- Evenjob
- Community
- Old Radnor
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.25495, -3.07778
- Cadw reference
- 9167
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
Part of a farmyard grouping to E of village.
History
C16 origins, extended in C19.
Exterior
Two-storey U-plan, the crosswings being of different dates. The right-hand wing is probably original and is hipped to the rear. Single-storey lean-to runs along length of rear wall. Rendered front, coursed rubble rear elevations, rubble plinth. Slate roofs. Brick ridge stack to left of centre, projecting rubble stack with offsets and brick upper to right-hand wing side wall. Six-panel door with transom light to right of centre range, open timber porth with slate roof. Modern casements to front and modern glazed door to left-hand wing end. Side windows small-paned casements under cambered voussoir lintels. Rear lean-to has C19 boarded doors and small-paned casements.
Interior
Not fully inspected. Some exposed timber-framing. Centre room has bressummer wall-framing and chequerboard arrangement of very deep chamfered beams with pyramid stops. Left-hand wing has narrow chamfered beams and exposed joists. Rear dog-leg stairs in this wing with wavy pattern splat balusters and squared newel with corner mouldings. Two-panel, raised and fielded door to right-hand wing. Ridge stack has massive rubble base.
Nearby in the register
- Cowshed/Stable Range to NW of Upper HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Barn Range to NW of Upper HouseAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Outbuilidng lying 20m SW of Brook HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Brook HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.