Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Bilmore Farmhouse
Old Radnor, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 15 February 1993
- Locality
- Walton
- Community
- Old Radnor
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.22369, -3.08585
- Cadw reference
- 9196
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Set below the main road with Old Radnor Hill to NW.
Exterior
Mid C19. Two storeys with cellar, double pile. Coursed squared rubble of better quality on the front elevation, slate roof, projecting rubble end stacks with oversailing course. Three-bay front, central 6-panel door with overlight, slated canopy with decorative bargeboards, brackets and finial. Timber casement windows with deep chamfered cross-pattern frames under voussoir lintels. Rear elevation has older style cross-pattern window with some leaded panes in iron-framed casements. Blocked door to left of centre.
Interior
Original plan with front kitchen and parlour, back kitchen and dairy. Exposed beams with narrow chamfer. Four-panel doors to front rooms, boarded to rear. Straight-flight stairs with beaded plank sides, vase-shaped turned newel and stick balusters. Flagstones survive in hall and dairy. Dairy has rough chamfered beams and plank shutters.
Reason for designation
A little-altered example of a C19 improved farmhouse.
Nearby in the register
- Former Station Building close to junction with A44 (Powys County Store)Transportunder 1 mi
- Stockwell Farmhouse, including attached Ranges to SouthDomesticunder 1 mi
- Lower HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- The Harp InnCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.