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Coach-house at Porth Mawr & adjoining boundary walls to SW end and NE to Gate-house on Brecon Road

A Grade II Listed Building in Crickhowell, Powys

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.8601 / 51°51'36"N

Longitude: -3.1381 / 3°8'17"W

OS Eastings: 321719

OS Northings: 218553

OS Grid: SO217185

Mapcode National: GBR F0.SXYN

Mapcode Global: VH6CH.KHCY

Plus Code: 9C3RVV66+2Q

Entry Name: Coach-house at Porth Mawr & adjoining boundary walls to SW end and NE to Gate-house on Brecon Road

Listing Date: 25 September 1986

Last Amended: 25 September 1986

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 7159

Building Class: Domestic

ID on this website: 300007159

Location: 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.

County: Powys

Town: Crickhowell

Community: Crickhowell (Crughywel)

Community: Crickhowell

Built-Up Area: Crickhowell

Traditional County: Brecknockshire

Tagged with: Carriage house

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History

The walls are probably entirely early C19 contemporary with Porthmawr House, although of C15 origins.

Exterior

2-storey and attic 3-bay rubble coach house, slate roof with weathervane to ridge and brick chimney stack. Central bay advanced and gabled with plain bargeboards and wide eaves, circular attic window; boarded opening to 1st floor under timber lintel and canmbered voussoirs, formerly with bell. Coursed rubble ground floors below cill band; paired cambered headed coaching entrances with voussoirs and keystones and double boarded doors. Smaller entrance to left beside horizontal sliding sash window; similar to right with adjoining lower outbuilding. Plain rubble gable ends with circular attic lights in brick surrounds. Rear wall with vertical joint; 2 boarded and 2 open loft doors and 3-light timber window to outbuilding.

Part castellated wall adjoins to right, raised near corner with double boarded doors, pointed chamfered arch opening further around before wall ends against Porth Mawr Gatehouse on Brecon Road.

Reasons for Listing

Group value.

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  • II Porth Mawr House
    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.
  • 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 D.N.Stores
    At the northern end of the street beyond the Cambrian Hotel, continuous with No 3 (no longer of special interest).
  • 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 Cambrian Arms Hotel
    Situated on the bend of the A40 at the northern end of the street, small open courtyard.
  • II 5 High Street
    Forward to the street on a narrow stretch opposite the Cambrian Hotel.
  • II Bar to the Bear Hotel
    Forward to the street on a narrow stretch opposite the Cambrian Hotel.
  • II H.J. & D.Webb & Sons
    At the top of the street with fronts to 'The Square' facing down Beaufort Street (A40). At the end of the planned group of frontages; adjoining Cambrian Hotel to right and uniform with terrace to lef

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