Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Nantddu
Penybont, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Nantddu, Penybont, Powys, designated on 11 August 1993.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 11 August 1993
- Locality
- Nantddu
- Community
- Penybont
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.24565, -3.29631
- Cadw reference
- 9323
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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 about 2.4km (1+ miles) SW of Llandegley village.
History
Late C18.
Exterior
Two storeys with attics and single-storey rear portion under catslide roof. Rubble stone, tin roof to main part. Two end stacks one of brick, one larger squared rubble stack with brick dressings. Symmetrical window arrangement and central door. Modern, half-glazed door under canopy. Tall thin timber casement windows under flat voussoir heads. Rear section has an enclosed porch and two dormers, also an original mullion window to the dairy.
Interior
Not inspected. Said to be unaltered since RCAHM visit in 1969. They recorded period interiors with good quality open-well staircase, scroll-stopped beams, large open fireplaces and a moulded door surround.
Reason for designation
Listed as a good, well-preserved example of a later C18 vernacular farmhouse of regional type. Group value with earlier outbuilding.
Nearby in the register
- Outbuilding immediately SEof Nantddu farmhouseAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Upper Graig (Old House)Domesticunder 1 mi
- Outbuilding range 30m SW of GraigAgriculture and Subsistence1 mi
- GraigDomestic1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.