The following information was taken from Clwyd Powys Archaeological Trust Report no. 1652: 'Ffrydd Vaughan, Dolfor Road, Newtown, Powys - Building Survey.'
'The earliest cartographic evidence for the building is provided by the Ordnance Survey in the form of the Surveyors? Drawing of 1817 and the 1836 Old Series mapping. The former does not depict Ffrydd Vaughan while the latter does, although it is not named. It also shows the new turnpike road between Newtown and Llandrindod Wells, which was built following a Turnpike Act for Montgomeryshire in 1834, suggesting that the farmhouse dates from 1834-6.'
'The Tithe Survey for Newtown of 1843 identifies the house as `Ffrydd Vaughan?, `house, buildings, garden, stackyard and lane?, in the ownership of Reverend George Arthur Evors and occupied by William Reese.'
'By the time of the Ordnance Survey large scale mapping of 1886 the house was known as Ffridd Farm and comprised the farmhouse with an adjoining U-shaped range to the north. By 1902 two new buildings had been added to the western side of the house.'
