Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Lower Cwm
Penybont, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 11 August 1993
- Locality
- Lower Cwm
- Community
- Penybont
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.27192, -3.24216
- Cadw reference
- 9319
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
Situated on the western edge of the Radnor Forest about 1.6km (1 mile) NE of Llandegley village.
History
Probably C17 (modernised 1983).
Exterior
Two storeys (roof line raised), single range with rubble stone walls, rendered top section. Brick end stack to right. Modern boarded door in right corner, small-paned timber casements, regularly placed, to right of door; far left ground floor window smaller than the rest. Modern lean-to on right hand end on site of original end room.
Interior
Lobby entry plan, large open fireplace with rubble jambs, timber lintel and step stop. Exposed beams with wide chamfer and step stop. One end of main axial beam rests on the top rail of a low timber-framed partition wall, the sole plate of which rests on a stone plinth; wattle grooves and stave holes visible. Winder stairs with multi-faceted newel cap and scribe moulded newels. Flagstone floors.
Reason for designation
Listed as a good example of a small C17 vernacular farmhouse with much internal detailing.
Nearby in the register
- Outbuilding range immediately SE of Lower CwmAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Shepherd's Tump round barrowRound Barrowunder 1 mi
- Wern, including adjoining outbuilding rangeDomesticunder 1 mi
- Llwynburfach FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.