Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Little Trewern Farmhouse
Penybont, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Carrog Dingle, Penybont, Powys, designated on 11 August 1993.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 11 August 1993
- Locality
- Carrog Dingle
- Community
- Penybont
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.25208, -3.24235
- Cadw reference
- 9298
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
Lies under the western slope of Radnor Forest at the bottom of Carrog Dingle, about 1.2km (0.75 mile) SE of Llandegley village. Sited across slope.
History
Possibly 1776, reputedly the date on a stone gable-end plaque now mutilated.
Exterior
Two storeys with rear single-storey section under catslide roof. Rubble stone, slate roof, two large rubble end stacks, boxed eaves. Regular window arrangement, central boarded door. First-floor windows and lower left are under voussoir lintels, lower right window and door have renewed lintels. Three-light timber casement windows except for lower left small-paned, iron-frame window and two gable end attic windows and rear dairy windows which have plain, heavy timber frames in squared openings.
Outbuilding adjoining north end of house: Cowhouses contemporary with the house. Rubble stone, tin roof, loft dormer to centre front, 4 boarded doors. Pegged timber stud partitions, rough pole loft flooring.
Interior
Central stair hall with flanking rooms, the right-hand one sub-divided at one time and with a blocked fireplace. The left-hand room has a large open fireplace, partially reduced, timber mantel shelf and spit rack. Plain squared axial beam and exposed joists with original suspended bacon cratch. Flagstone floors, elm stairs with plain stick balusters. Stud partition walls.
Nearby in the register
- Outbuilding attached to Little Trewern FarmhouseAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- L Plan Farm Ranges to NW of Little TrewernAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Barn range 50m SW of old farmhouse at VronlaseAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Vronlase (The Old Farmhouse)Domesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.