Full Report for Listed Buildings


The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.

Summary Description


Reference Number
15645
Building Number
 
Grade
II*  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
11/03/1981  
Date of Amendment
24/01/1995  
Name of Property
Llwyn Melyn Farmhouse  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Powys  
Community
Trewern  
Town
 
Locality
Trewern  
Easting
328784  
Northing
311171  
Street Side
 
Location
Located on a strategic raised site in the centre of the Pwll Bychan valley between the high land masses of the Breidden and Long Mountain.  

Description


Broad Class
Domestic  
Period
 

History
C14-C15.  

Exterior
One and half storeys. 3 bays with a one bay rear extension. C18-C19 brick, the centre bay of random stonework, encasing an originally timber framed building. Slate roof. Boarded door, and C20 timber casement windows. Three dormers to upper floor. House is of 4 bays, containing central 2-bay hall, with a post and panel upper end partition, originally open to roof, defined by cruck trusses, the centre truss with arched braced collar, and cusped raking struts to the blades, which carry a single tier of purlins. Mortices for deep windbraces. The E hall truss was framed and closed. Late C16-early C17 stack inserted, with the fire lintel carved with double ended dragons confronting a central triskelion, man and woman lying facing, feet to feet, he with an open fronted shirt, the woman now removed, and at the opposite end the letter W, cryptic symbols and date 162(?)  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
Graded II* as an important early cruck-framed hall-house with much surviving internal work.  

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