Houses and estates
Great houses, their gardens and the estates that built them.
Site · house and garden
Powis Castle
The only castle in Wales that was never abandoned. Its princes chose the English crown over Llywelyn, and it is still standing because of it.
Site · upland farm and reserve
Gilfach
A Radnorshire hill farm preserved whole — medieval longhouse, hay meadow, ffridd and open hill — rather than as fragments. The best place in Powys to see how upland farming actually worked.
Site · Shire Hall and museum
The Judge's Lodging
A Georgian county courtroom with the judge's apartments above and the servants' quarters below, preserved complete and lit by gas.
Site · union workhouse
Y Dolydd, Llanfyllin
The most complete surviving workhouse building in Wales, and the clearest place in the country to see what the 1834 Poor Law was actually designed to do.
Site · monument
Cilmeri
A rough granite monolith beside the road west of Builth, marking where the last native Prince of Wales was killed on 11 December 1282.
Site · market hall
Llanidloes Market Hall
The last half-timbered market hall left in Wales, standing on open oak arches at the crossroads so that trading could carry on underneath.