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
9176
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
13/12/1951  
Date of Amendment
15/02/1993  
Name of Property
Harpton Court  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Powys  
Community
Old Radnor  
Town
 
Locality
Harpton  
Easting
323482  
Northing
259828  
Street Side
 
Location
Set in open countryside midway between Walton and New Radnor.  

Description


Broad Class
Domestic  
Period
 

History
The former seat of the Lewis family from the C16 (Sir George Cornewall Lewis was Chancellor of the Exchequer under Palmerston). The house was sold in 1953 and the main domestic ranges demolished in 1956. The north-west wing and the stable yard survive.  

Exterior
Later C19, neo-Tudor 3-storey block of snecked rubble facings and ashlar dressings. Stepped gable ends, finials, 2 oriel bays, 2-storey canted corner block forming entrance hall. East gable end has drip-course stepped around recessed panel with armorial plaque. Chamfered multi-lights with large-paned horned sashes. To north is adjoining fragment of earlier tower with battlements and machicolations, in coursed rubble stone with triple-shafted corner stack and pyramid-capped look-out block, loopholes, round-headed windows under hood moulds. Various improvements were made by the architect, John Nash, to the (demolished) house for T Frankland Lewis in the early C19.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
 

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