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Latitude: 52.6266 / 52°37'35"N
Longitude: -3.1072 / 3°6'26"W
OS Eastings: 325149
OS Northings: 303781
OS Grid: SJ251037
Mapcode National: GBR B1.7RNZ
Mapcode Global: WH79X.77MQ
Plus Code: 9C4RJVGV+J4
Entry Name: Harp Cottage
Listing Date: 20 March 1998
Last Amended: 29 June 1998
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 19545
Building Class: Domestic
ID on this website: 300019545
Location: Located approximately 2.3km SSE of Leighton church on N side of a minor road between Forden and Trelystan. The house stands at the S edge of a woodland plantation.
County: Powys
Community: Forden with Leighton and Trelystan (Ffordun gyda Tre'r-llai a Threlystan)
Community: Forden with Leighton and Trelystan
Locality: Offa's Dyke
Traditional County: Montgomeryshire
Tagged with: Cottage
Late 1850s and possibly by W.H. Gee for John Naylor's Leighton Estate. Naylor, a Liverpool banker, had acquired the Leighton Estate in 1846-47 and embarked on an ambitious programme of building, notably Leighton Hall, church and Leighton Farm, all designed by Gee and largely completed by the mid 1850s. Naylor continued to extend and improve the Estate until his death in 1889, during which time a number of dwellings were built. These dwellings exhibit a clear hierarchy of status between the lodges faced in stone, generally in prominent locations, and the humbler brick labourers’ cottages. Naylor’s grandson, Captain J.M. Naylor, sold Leighton Hall and the Estate in 1931.
Single-storey cottage of brick with rock-faced quoins and plinth band, and hipped slate roof with central brick stack, which has rock-faced quoins and 3 square pots. The cottage is double fronted with centrally-placed boarded door and 12-pane sash windows in dressed stone surrounds. Similar windows in the 2-window R side wall and single-window rear. (L side wall has modern single storey extension to L.)
Not inspected (November-December 1996) but rooms probably planned around central chimney.
The Leighton Estate is an exceptional example of high-Victorian estate development. It is remarkable for the scale and ambition of its conception and planning, the consistency of its design, the extent of its survival, and is the most complete example of its type in Wales. Harp Cottage is an important element of this whole ensemble at Leighton. As a small labourer's cottage it is characteristic of the Leighton Estate, and its plainness in comparison with the lodges and dwellings at Leighton Farm expresses the hierarchy of estate buildings.
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