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
15962
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
26/05/1995
Date of Amendment
19/12/1995
Name of Property
Bryn-Derwen Hall
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Meifod
Town
Locality
Bwlch-y-Cibau
Easting
317031
Northing
318119
Street Side
W
Location
Located in its own parkland, off the A.490 main Bwlch-y-cibau to Llanfyllin road, on an eminence with views to the NE and SE.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Built in 1870 as a gentleman's residence in a mixed Tudor and Gothic style in the manner of William Butterfield's vicarages; architect unknown. Built for Mr. Thomas Gill, originally of Hale, Lancashire and a cotton merchant of Liverpool.
Exterior
Polygonal rubble stonework with limestone dressings. Slate roofs. Two storeys with attics, NW front has two unequal gables. Boarded door with triangular arch and hood mould on carved head stops. Two-light shouldered window over set in a pointed arched opening with a quatrefoil in the head. The larger gable to the right has stone mullioned and transomed windows to both floors and twin lights to attic in gable. Similar windows either side. Eaves bracketed. Main SE front has 2 and 3-light similar stone mullioned and transomed windows, a gable at the left (SW) end, and a bay to right, canted on ground floor rising to square on first floor. Brick stacks.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as a largely unaltered example of a mid C19 gentry house, with a well designed composition.
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