History of Greenfields
GREENFIELDS IS A GRADE 2 LISTED BUILDING.
THE FIRST STAGE OF IT BUILT IN OR AROUND 1784, WITH AN EXTENSION BUILT IN ABOUT 1834.
IT WAS BUILT FOR THE LOCAL BISHOP, MR WILLIAMSON, AS HIS PRIVATE RESIDENCE, IT WAS LATER SOLD TO/ BOUGHT BY MIDLANDS BANK AND BECAME THE BANK MANAGER'S RESIDENCE……LATER STILL IT WAS BOUGHT BY A LOCAL QUARRY OWNER AND GIVEN TO RADNORSHIRE COUNTY (ABOUT 1948).
FIRST IT WAS USED AS A COMMUNITY HEALTH ESTABLISHMENT, THEN LATER, ABOUT 1978, IT WAS USED AS A COMMUNITY YOUTH CENTRE, AS WELL AS SOME ACCOMMODATION .
ABOUT 1989, THESE ACTIVITIES WERE ABANDONED AT GREENFIELDS, AND MOVED ELSEWHERE…….GREENFIELDS ITSELF WAS ABANDONED. LATER THERE WAS SOME PRACTISE EXERCISES THERE BY THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, AND BY THE FIRE SERVICE, BUT EVEN THESE STOPPED. IN 1991 GREENFIELDS WAS BOARDERED UP AND LEFT TO DISINTEGRATE
IN JULY 1999 LYN FURNISS BOUGHT GREENFIELDS AS A DERELECT BUILDING.
AFTER 18 MONTHS OF HARD WORK GREENFIELDS BECAME LIVABLE ONCE AGAIN - NOT SO GRAND BUT LIVABLE….IT REMAINS AN ON-GOING PROJECT .
LOCAL INTEREST:
GREENFIELDS IS PART OF THE SITE OF THE REBECCA RIOTS, THE OLD TOLL HOUSE BEING ACROSS THE ROAD. RHAYADER IS AN ANCIENT TOWN... THERE WAS A TIMBER CASTLE BUT IT WAS BURN’T DOWN IN THE A.D.1100’S...THEY SAY ON STORMY NIGHTS YOU CAN STILL HEAR THE WARNING BELLS... THE TOWN IS RIDDLED WITH UNDERGROUND PASSAGEWAYS...HEAPS OF HISTORY HERE.
