Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Harpton Farmhouse
Old Radnor, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Harpton, 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
- Harpton
- Community
- Old Radnor
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.23255, -3.12424
- Cadw reference
- 9179
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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)
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (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)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Sited about 0.25km NW of Harpton Court.
Exterior
C17 (?) timber-framed house, remodelled in C19. Two storeys and attics with tall gables to either side of front elevation. Rendered front and side walls, random rubble of various phases to rear wall. Slate roof, 3 tall red brick stacks with diagonally-set triple shafts. Four-window front, flush-framed 12-pane sashes with half-sashes in dormers. C19 front door to left of centre, part-glazed and panelled; open timber porch with trelliswork gable and pierced bargeboards. Rear elevation has C19/20 casements under cambered voussoir lintels.
Interior
Outline of timber-framing visible behind wallpaper, exposed scroll-stop beam in entrance hall, wide chamfered beams in rear room, 6-panel doors, C19 stairs.
Reason for designation
Formerly the Home Farm to Harpton Court.
Nearby in the register
- Former Granary to stable-yard at Harpton CourtDomesticunder 1 mi
- Former Stable Block to Stable-Yard at Harpton CourtDomesticunder 1 mi
- Harpton CourtDomesticunder 1 mi
- Gate Piers,Walls and Railings at former North Driveway to Harpton CourtDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.