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
8718
Building Number
 
Grade
II*  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
12/12/1952  
Date of Amendment
03/09/2004  
Name of Property
Ty Faenor  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Powys  
Community
Abbey Cwmhir  
Town
 
Locality
Tyfaenor  
Easting
307147  
Northing
271092  
Street Side
 
Location
On the E side of a minor road between Abbey Cwmhir and Llananno, approximately 1.7km E of the parish church.  

Description


Broad Class
Domestic  
Period
 

History
A hunting lodge built in the late C17 for Richard Fowler of Harnage, Shropshire. Part of the house has been used as a Methodist chapel since 1818.  

Exterior
A rubble-stone house of 2 storeys with attic and basement, renewed slate roof on projecting eaves, with skylights, and slightly splayed gable stacks, each with 3 diagonal shafts. The original entrance is in the NW side, where there is an added porch concealing a shaped wooden door head and original boarded door with strap hinges. Vertical joints in the wall R and L suggest former windows, but the only surviving fenestration is an inserted upper-storey window to the R and inserted basement window lower R of the porch. The NE gable end has 2-light wood-mullioned windows flanking the stack, each of which is blocked behind the frame, except upper R where the window has been removed and infilled with rubble. The 3-window SE, rear elevation, where the ground is lower is near symmetrical. Wood-mullioned windows under stone segmental heads are late C20 replacements in original openings. The central basement doorway is in a later added porch. It is flanked by windows on each side. The lower storey has similar windows R and L, larger to the R, and a similar window upper L, but the upper R-hand window is slightly higher and beneath the eaves. In the centre are 2 narrower stair windows, the upper of which is beneath the eaves. The SW gable end has a half-glazed lean-to porch to the R, to a boarded basement door. In the lower storey is a replacement window to the L.  

Interior
The house retains its original symmetrical plan, which was exceptional for the late C17. The entrance opens to a stair hall. The full-height dog-leg stair has fret-cut balusters with square newels and oversized tapering finials. A plainer stair leads down to the basement. Timber-framed partitions are mostly concealed, but close-studding is exposed at attic level. The room L of the entrance has a triangular door head and boarded door with strap hinges. Its fireplace has ovolo-moulded stone jambs and wooden lintel. Two spine beams have run-out stops. The room directly above also has a triangular door head. In the basement kitchen is a wide segmental-headed fireplace with chamfered voussoirs, 2 spine beams, which are corbelled over the fireplace, and a wooden window seat. In the wall of the basement porch is a re-set grave slab to Sarah Griffiths (d1825) and Thomas Griffiths (d 1853) of Ty Faenor, by Stevens.  

Reason for designation
Listed grade II* as a fine C17 house especially notable for the retention of its original plan form and detail.  

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