Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
16183
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
15/04/1994
Date of Amendment
Name of Property
Camlad House (formerly known as Bryn Hyfred Hospital)
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Forden with Leighton and Trelystan
Town
Locality
Forden
Easting
321660
Northing
300083
Street Side
SE
Location
Located on a minor road from Forden village, leading to Thornbury township, and approximately 1,500m SE of Forden church.
Description
Broad Class
Industrial
Period
History
Designed by Joseph Bromfield, architect in 1794 as a House of Industry serving the Montgomery and Welshpool districts, at a cost of £12,000 to accommodate 1,000 persons. Subsequent alterations and additions in the C20.
Exterior
Built of red brick in Flemish bond and with slate roofs. Three storeys, the main front facing NW and symmetrical, with a centre block of 9 window bays, and 3-bay end wings slightly set forward, and extending as wings to the rear, each of 5 bays on the inner face. The roofs of the wings are hipped. The main front has a central round-headed entrance doorway with plain pilasters swept out to form brackets for the open pediment. Double panelled doors with overlight. Windows are 12-pane sashes to ground floor, 9-pane to floors 2 and 3, all now horned. Rubbed flat brick arches and stone sills. Inserted doors in bays 2, 5, 11 and 14, with glazed doors. Brick dentilled eaves. The fenestration of the wings is of a similar small pane type. Shallow projections added in the late C19 on the outer faces. The NE wing has C20 raking brick buttresses. Connected to each end of the main block is a 2-storey pavilion block, each with a hipped roof and connected to the main building by corridors. The left block has a 3-bay front, 6-panes to the upper windows, and 12-panes to the ground floor, the other windows are mostly modern. Single storey brick extensions to the NE and rear. The right hand block, containing the theatre for dramatic performances, has recent glazing; 3 windows to the upper floor and broad opening with stone architrave and glazed doors to the ground floor. Projection to the rear.
Interior
The interior has been altered to serve hospital requirements.
Reason for designation
Included as a fine example of a later C18 public building to meet the requirement of the Poor Law Acts, and designed by a leading architect in the field.
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