Auction to be held at Saturday November 29 2008 , Town Hall, Welshpool
Guide Price £180,000Calling all those interested in buying a Welsh farm which enjoys total tranquility as well as 77 acres of upland pasture and wetland!
Bryn Mawr is a traditional Welsh Vernacular farmstead that dates back to the Middle Ages. It is located in Mid-Wales in an isolated rural location, some what off the beaten track. The farmhouse has been built upon a unique traditional Montgomeryshire longhouse. It would have once been cruck framed and had a thatched rush roof. It still nestles between a bank and a line of trees which sheltered the home. The building is recorded in I C Peates’s book The Welsh House in which a photograph of it in the 1930s features on the cover. Not long after the book was published in 1940, the farmstead was abandoned and the longhouse fell into ruin. In recent years The Bryn Mawr Heritage Trust has formed. They have worked hard to clear the site allowing for a survey and report to be carried out by the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales.
The site, which is to be auctioned later this month, consists of the derelict farmhouse alongside a number of outbuildings of stone with slate roofs in varying conditions. Evidence suggests that a farm has been set amidst spectacular countryside on this site since the 12th-century, when it was a Cistercian monastic grange. However, existing stone work most likely dates from the early 15th-century. Given this immense historic interest, it is surprising that the buildings have not yet been listed. The Bryn Mawr Heritage Trust had hoped to raise the funds to secure the sale of this farmstead and to restore it as an educational resource and community asset. Sadly they have not achieved the funds. It is hoped that a sympathetic buyer will acquire the property who might still consider allowing the Trust to continue with some of its good work at the site.
For further information:
- Byrm Mawr Heritage Trust - please visit their website: http://sites.google.com/site/brynmawrheritagetrust/Home
- ‘The Welsh House’, by I C Peates’s book
- RCAHMW at www.rcahmw.gov.uk
Agents
Harry Ray & Co.
37 Broad Street
Welshpool
Powys
SY21 7RR
01938 552 555
[email protected]
www.harryray.com
Local Planning Authority:
(Although the conservation officer post is currently vacant, there may be someone in planning who could help with any enquiries concerning the nature of the historic buildings.)
Powys County Council (Montgomeryshire)
Severn Road
Welshpool
Powys
SY21 7AS
01938 551000
