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
15807
Building Number
Grade
II*
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
22/02/1995
Date of Amendment
22/02/1995
Name of Property
Park Farmhouse
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Guilsfield
Town
Locality
Groes-Lwyd
Easting
320197
Northing
311294
Street Side
Location
Located off a minor road running W of Groes-lwyd crossroads.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Exterior
Farmhouse. C17. Timber framed with slate roof. One storey and attic, 2/3 bays, type C lobby-entry plan, with an added or rebuilt brick built bay at the W end, and a granary over accessed by external steps. Services in lean-to along rear, and 1-storey timber framed woodstore, possibly originally a free-standing granary at right angles at W. end.
Robust square panel box framing, 3-panels high with timber 3-light windows and boarded door. Gabled dormer. Brick stack.
Interior
Living hall, to left of stack, has two chamfered ceiling beams with cut and scoop stops, and timber framed end wall, originally with wattle and daub panels, but now opened to stone chamber under granary. Large fireplace with lateral oven, and original winding oak stair newel stair. Parlour behind stack has similar spine beams. First floor has original oak floorboards, C17 panelled partitions, probably reset, and oak doors with original latches. centre room dormer is also C17, with frame having small ogee mouldings on mullion and sides.
Reason for designation
Included and graded II* on the grounds of the unusual survival of many original internal features.
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