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spine range running NE - SW, of approximately 12m span, containing the main straw barn, having 2-storey cross ranges of 6.5m span, 14 roof bays each side, set 2/3rds of the length to the SW, from which 2 single storey ranges spring at right angles, each with 7 open arches, and terminating in pens each with a small yard. The single storey ranges form 2 stock yards each side of the SW end of the barn range, designed for beef cattle. The spine barn range has 14 tensioned queen post-and-collar trusses NE of the cross range junction, and the cross ranges have haunched king posts and angled strut trusses. The large stockyard in the northern angle is paved with large stone sets, and is defined by a 7-bay carthouse on cast iron columns on its NE side, with a wide 6-roof-bay granary over. At right angles to the NW cross range, the large stock yard is enclosed by a further range, with stables for brood mares on the inner (yard) side, and for stallions on the outer face. The corresponding E angle contains the rick yard. Tall round-arched openings give access to the enclosed paved N yard, with similar arches forming a cross space in the great barn range. Access doors to the feeding walks are framed and battened, with some recessed ironmongery, and windows are of part louvred. The cattle yards between the SW wings are enclosed by stone coped brick walls. A stone shield with initials and date on the SW gable of the barn, and some bricks are impressed JN1874 for John Naylor. The lack of farm buildings on the NE sector, suggests that the layout was not completed. The effluent flow away to a very large holding tank beyond the SE end of the cross range, with distribution pipes leading to the fields, similar to the system used at
Leighton. The buildings are in the course of conversion into a housing scheme of 26 residential dwellings.
241:âA little beyond (Offaâs Dyke), near the house of Nantcribba, rises a great conoid rock. A few years ago, on taking away the top, were discovered the remains of a little fort; and on paring away the rubbish, it appeared to have been square, with a round tower probably at each corner: one is tolerably entire, and is only nine feet diameter within; the wall seven feet severn feet seven inches thick. There had been some small square rooms, with door cases of good freestone: the rest of the building is of rough stone, cemented with clay. This place was probably ruined by fire: for I observed some melted lead, mixed with charcoal and several pieces of vitrified stuff. There is no history relative to it. It must be very antient, for on the top is the stool of a vast oak. The base of the rock is surrounded with a ditch, cut through it, leaving only a narrow pass to the fort. At a distance is another trench.â
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Purcells are likely to have lived at Hen Nantcribba, a C17 timber-framed house with the W wing and S side rebuilt in stone in the C19, and a tall shaped brick chimney abutted to the N. In 1667 the Purcells' lands were divided between John's daughters Mary and
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Nantcribba Castle and Hen Nantcribba. This house was placed on a ridge of high ground, with views over Shropshire to the east and Montgomeryshire to the west. This house was modified in the mid 18th by the Earl of Hereford, but shortly
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Gwyddgrug Castle (Forden and the Gorddwr Dispute in the Thirteenth Century, 125-136 ââMontgomeryshire Collectionsââ lvii, (1962), This provides a good plan of the Castle site and a note about âred sandstone foundations being found on the top of the castle mould in
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322:, the M P for Helston, in, Cornwall, who lived there between 1785 and 1789 Eventually in 1863, the House and surrounding lands were sold to John Naylor, a Liverpool banker, who had already purchased two other Montgomeryshire estates:
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Gwyddgrug is by no means certain. While the Corbets regained the area after 1277, there is no evidence that the castle was re-built.
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Madness of King George III; Revelations by James Bland Burges of Nantcribba, Montgomeryshire, ââMontgomeryshire Collectionsââ, 97, (2009) 63-71
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National Library of Wales. Particularly relevant is the survey by Poundley in the Harrison Mss, Vol 1(WlAbNL)004509315
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