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
7157
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
19/07/1963  
Date of Amendment
 
Name of Property
Porth Mawr House  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Powys  
Community
Crickhowell  
Town
Crickhowell  
Locality
 
Easting
321746  
Northing
218586  
Street Side
W  
Location
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.  

Description


Broad Class
Domestic  
Period
 

History
Regency mansion, said to have been completed by 1825. Built by the Seymour family following the pre-1810 fire damage to the C15 Cwrt-y-Carw.  

Exterior
U-plan with later additions. 2-storey stucco fronts, hipped slate roofs with wide swept bracket eaves and classical eaves band; brick and rendered chimney stacks. 5-window main front, with rusticated quoins to ground floor, faces NW across garden. Small-pane sash windows, with shutters to 1st floor. Advanced central half-glazed porch under overall lean-to verandah on paved terrace; trellised uprights (altered to base) and fan-traceried spandrels. Rendered left side adjoins rear of gateway at right angles; small-pane sash windows to 1st floor and lower 2-storey extension with external staircase to 1st floor porch. 1-window right side with tripartite sash windows; 3-centred arch entrance with panelled reveals to pointed double doors. Later extensions to rear and remains of former service buildings such as laundry.  

Interior
Interior much altered through modern conversion into flats.  

Reason for designation
Group value.  

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