Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Upper House Platform House
Glascwm, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Platform house
- Period
- Medieval
- Date of designation
- 26 October 1999
- Community
- Glascwm
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.20314, -3.35425
- SAM number
- RD175
- Cadw record number
- 1615
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
Summary description and reason for designation
The following provides a general description of the Scheduled Monument.
The monument consists of a platform house, a levelled area of ground on which a house is built. The Upper House site comprises a platform house, with a large associated enclosure defined by a prominent earth bank and area of contemporary cultivation. The foundations of the building measure 14m x 4.7m and rest on an earth platform set into the natural slope of the ground. It is possible that the pile of stones present on the platform could be part of the building superstructure.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of settlement organisation. It retains significant archaeological potential, with a strong probability of the presence of associated archaeological features and deposits. The structure itself may be expected to contain archaeological information concerning chronology and building techniques. a platform house may be part of a larger cluster of monuments and their importance can further enhanced by their group value.
The scheduled area comprises the remains described and areas around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive.
Nearby in the register
- Upper House round cairnsRound Cairnunder 1 mi
- Pant y Rhiw Medieval SettlementDeserted Rural Settlementunder 1 mi
- Court standing stoneStanding Stoneunder 1 mi
- Court stone rowStone Rowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.