Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Bestbrooke 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
- 52.25493, -3.12338
- Cadw reference
- 9185
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
Situated in meadowland about 1.25 km SW of Kinnerton.
History
Dated 1851, replacing old house on adjacent site.
Exterior
Good quality coursed, squared rubble with ashlar quoins and dressings. Two storeys, simple rectangular plan with lower service range at west end. Advanced central gabled bay to (south) garden front, gabled eaves dormers to front and rear, slate roof. Three tall stone stacks with chamfered corners and oversailing courses. Sixteen-pane sashes under cambered voussoir lintels. Trelliswork porch to garden elevation, stone and slate porch to north front. Date plaque in apex of south gable.
Reason for designation
Fine unspoilt example of an early Victorian farmhouse.
Nearby in the register
- L-Plan Outbuildings to NW of Bestbrooker FarmhouseAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Bache FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- U-Plan Ranges of Farm Buildings at Bache FarmAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Lea FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.