Tygwyn, Crickhowell, Powys

Coordinates

Latitude: 51.8625 / 51°51'45"N

Longitude: -3.1391 / 3°8'20"W

OS Eastings: 321658

OS Northings: 218830

OS Grid: SO216188

Mapcode National: GBR F0.SXMR

Mapcode Global: VH6CH.JGV1

Plus Code: 9C3RVV76+29

Entry Name: Tygwyn

Listing Date: 25 September 1986

Last Amended: 25 September 1986

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 7163

Building Class: Domestic

ID on this website: 300007163

Location: Detached and set back from the main road behind small railed front garden; next to Pen-y-Dre Cottage.

County: Powys

Community: Crickhowell (Crughywel)

Community: Crickhowell

Built-Up Area: Crickhowell

Traditional County: Brecknockshire

Tagged with: Architectural structure

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History

Early C19 (on 1840 Tithe Map) 2-storey and attic house formerly part of a small estate and said locally to be by John Nash. Later alterations to the front.

Exterior

Roughcast walls, slate roof, cement render and brick chimney stacks, one to rear cross range diagonally set; bracket eaves, ornamental bargeboards to gable ends and gable to central advanced bay. Cross windows to first floor, splayed bays to ground floor flanking central boarded door. Gothick pointed sash window to left end with projecting gabled chimney breast.

2-storey but lower cross range to rear, 3-windows plus another blocked; sash windows of various types, Gothick to centre. Lean-to hood to ground floor over small bay window beside 4-panel door. Last bay stepped back with further boarded door below blind Gothick window. Modern alterations to rear.

Rubble gate piers to drive on left of house, boarded gates and door to right under pointed arched opening: drive flanked by attached rubble wall to left: further gate piers to rear formerly leading to stables and coach house.

Interior

Interior retains Gothick panelled and ornamented doors.

Reasons for Listing

Group value.

External Links

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Other nearby listed buildings

II Pen-y-Dre Cottage
Below the road and set back behind small iron railed front garden.
II Gazebo
Set into a long rubble wall flanking the A40 opposite the crenellated wall of Porth Mawr.
II St David's Rectory
At the top of, and at right angles to, the road, facing SW with garden sloping steeply to front.
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 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 NO.1 Llanbedr Road, Powys
Near the junction with Brecon Road, the western end of a splayed terrace stepped in the slope.
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 NO.2 Llanbedr Road, Powys
Near the junction with Brecon Road, the western end of a splayed terrace stepped in the slope

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Tygwyn

A Grade II Listed Building in Crickhowell, Powys