Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Brook 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
- 52.25531, -3.07862
- Cadw reference
- 9170
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
Set lower into hillside across lane to NW of Upper House.
History
C16/17.
Exterior
L-plan, originally timber-framed, now with rubble walls of various phases. Exposed queen-post truss to rear gable of crosswing. Slate roofs, rubble end stack to south range, rubble stack with brick upper to north side of crosswing. Random arrangement of window openings mainly with C20 casements. South-west elevations have more regular openings under cambered voussoir lintels. Part-glazed front door.
Interior
Shows exposed timber-framing and exposed beams with chamfer and square-cut stops.
Reason for designation
Brook House and outbuilding have group value with Upper House and its outbuildings.
Nearby in the register
- Outbuilidng lying 20m SW of Brook HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Barn Range to NW of Upper HouseAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Cowshed/Stable Range to NW of Upper HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Upper HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.