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Porth Mawr House

A Grade II Listed Building in Crickhowell, Powys

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.8604 / 51°51'37"N

Longitude: -3.1377 / 3°8'15"W

OS Eastings: 321746

OS Northings: 218586

OS Grid: SO217185

Mapcode National: GBR F0.SY2G

Mapcode Global: VH6CH.KHKQ

Plus Code: 9C3RVV66+4W

Entry Name: Porth Mawr House

Listing Date: 19 July 1963

Last Amended: 25 September 1986

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 7157

Building Class: Domestic

ID on this website: 300007157

Location: At the junction of Brecon Road, High Street and New Road; enclosed behind medieval and later crenellated wall and reached by a short driveway N off New Road or through Porth Mawr gatehouse.

County: Powys

Town: Crickhowell

Community: Crickhowell (Crughywel)

Community: Crickhowell

Built-Up Area: Crickhowell

Traditional County: Brecknockshire

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History

Regency mansion, said to have been completed by 1825. Built by the Seymour family following the pre-1810 fire damage to the C15 Cwrt-y-Carw.

Exterior

U-plan with later additions. 2-storey stucco fronts, hipped slate roofs with wide swept bracket eaves and classical eaves band; brick and rendered chimney stacks. 5-window main front, with rusticated quoins to ground floor, faces NW across garden. Small-pane sash windows, with shutters to 1st floor. Advanced central half-glazed porch under overall lean-to verandah on paved terrace; trellised uprights (altered to base) and fan-traceried spandrels.

Rendered left side adjoins rear of gateway at right angles; small-pane sash windows to 1st floor and lower 2-storey extension with external staircase to 1st floor porch. 1-window right side with tripartite sash windows; 3-centred arch entrance with panelled reveals to pointed double doors.

Later extensions to rear and remains of former service buildings such as laundry.

Interior

Interior much altered through modern conversion into flats.

Reasons for Listing

Group value.

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Other nearby listed buildings

  • I Porth-Mawr Gatehouse
    Forward to the street and set into a long rubble crenelated wall now enclosing Porth Mawr house but formerly the castellated Herbert family mansion called Cwrt-y-Carw. Gatehouse adjoins side of house
  • II Boundary wall running north from Porth Mawr Gate-house to Pen-y-dre Lodge
    Enclosing the Herbert family castellated mansion, Cwrt-y-Crw, but now forming a garden wall to Porth Mawr House, some modern houses and Pen-y-Dre Lodge.
  • II Coach-house at Porth Mawr & adjoining boundary walls to SW end and NE to Gate-house on Brecon Road
    Boundary walls flanking New Road, turns N at junction with Brecon Road and incorporates early C19 former stables and coach house to S of Porthmawr House.
  • II D.N.Stores
    At the northern end of the street beyond the Cambrian Hotel, continuous with No 3 (no longer of special interest).
  • II Ashfield
    On an elevated site at the bottom of Rectory Road on the corner with Brecon Road; reached by a short driveway entered between rubble gate piers and pointed wooden gates.
  • II 5 High Street
    Forward to the street on a narrow stretch opposite the Cambrian Hotel.
  • II NO.1 Llanbedr Road, Powys
    Near the junction with Brecon Road, the western end of a splayed terrace stepped in the slope.
  • II Cambrian Arms Hotel
    Situated on the bend of the A40 at the northern end of the street, small open courtyard.

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