4 A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 



Powys Caftle has been originally 

 built of a reddifh ftone, but in order to 

 keep it in a flate of repair, this has of 

 late years been fo plaiftered over with a 

 coat of red lime, that at this time very 

 little of the ftone is to be feen. This 

 red coating gives the building fo much 

 the appearance of brick, that it was not 

 till I almofl touched it, that I was un- 

 deceived in fuppofing it fuch. The an- 

 tique grandeur of the building, was com- 

 pletely deftroyed, by the linking and 

 harfh contraft betwixt the walls and the 

 modern and newly painted fafli win- 

 dows. 



The afcent to the caftle is up a long 

 and laborious flight of fleps much out 

 of repair when I was there ; and the 

 chief entrance is a gate-way betwixt 

 two large round towers. The building 

 is kept up as the habitation of Lord 

 Powys, though he very rarely comes 



thither. 



