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Latitude: 52.1772 / 52°10'37"N
Longitude: -3.3063 / 3°18'22"W
OS Eastings: 310769
OS Northings: 254015
OS Grid: SO107540
Mapcode National: GBR YS.4Y8X
Mapcode Global: VH69V.MJYV
Plus Code: 9C4R5MGV+VF
Entry Name: Fforest Farmhouse
Listing Date: 31 May 1962
Last Amended: 20 January 2005
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 8812
Building Class: Domestic
ID on this website: 300008812
Location: Set within the earthworks of Colwyn Castle on the N side of the A481 approximately 0.7km SW of Hundred House.
County: Powys
Community: Glascwm (Glasgwm)
Community: Glascwm
Locality: Hundred House
Traditional County: Radnorshire
Tagged with: Farmhouse
Described in 1629 as recently built by John Davies, perhaps re-using stone from the castle. The castle had been built in stone in 1240 as a Marcher stronghold but was disused by the end of the medieval period. The house was altered and heightened in the late C18 or early C19.
A 2½-storey house of whitened rubble stone, slate roof and roughcast stack to the R. Openings have wooden lintels in the lower storey, brick segmental heads to the upper storey and attic. The central C19 porch has a segmental arch with freestone voussoirs, and glazed front door. In the lower and middle storeys are 16-pane horned sashes. Two gabled dormers have 12-pane horned sashes. In the R gable end is a small window to the L in each storey. To the R are inserted French doors, with inserted window above and small attic window. The rear has a short gabled rear wing with raked buttress, and added outshut on its R side. A flat-roof projection is to the L. Rear windows are all replacements. The L gable end has a segmental-headed small-pane window upper R, above a lower attached range housing workshops.
A former entrance hall has an closed-string stair at the rear. The room to the R has spine beams. The house is also said to retain 2 fireplaces with moulded stone jambs, possibly reclaimed from the castle ruins.
Listed for its special architectural interest as a C17 house enlarged and retaining definite C19 character, retaining C17 interior detail and on the site of a medieval castle.
The farmhouse is surrounded by Scheduled Ancient Monument RD035.
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