Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Badland Farmhouse
Old Radnor, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Kinnerton, 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
- Kinnerton
- Community
- Old Radnor
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.26122, -3.11693
- Cadw reference
- 9183
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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
Situated 0.5km W of Kinnerton.
History
Integral farmhouse to planned farm steading of 1876. Said to have been built for Gibson-Watt family of Newbridge-on-Wye.
Exterior
L-plan with 2 parallel rear service wings, adjoining single-storey bakehouse and lean-to verandah. Brick, overpainted in red with white quoining and keyblocks. Slate roofs, 2 brick stacks, deep verges bargeboards and drop-finials. All elevations have gabled eaves dormers. Enclosed front porch with lattice-work sides and glazed door, boarded rear doors. Large-paned sashes under cambered lintels and 3-light casement to kitchen.
Interior
Period interior except for some replacement of fireplaces. Dairy wing has stone salting and cooling slabs on brick piers, kitchen has large fireplace with spit rack over, panelled alcove cupboard and numerous ceiling hooks. Front rooms have coved and moulded ceiling cornices. Dog-leg stairs with planked undersides, moulded ramped handrail, chamfered stick balusters. Plain 4-panel doors with chamfered detailing.
Reason for designation
Part of a remarkably well-preserved model-farm grouping; a building type rare in Radnorshire.
Nearby in the register
- Agricultural Ranges of outbuildings at Badland FarmAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Upper HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Former Stable Building Sited 15 yards north of Upper HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Telephone Call-box at crossroads opposite churchyardCommunicationsunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.