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.
Date of Designation
26/05/1995
Date of Amendment
26/05/1995
Name of Property
Tan-y-Fron
Location
Located behind a large front garden overlooking the road.
History
Villa of the early C19.
Exterior
Rubble stone with hipped slate roof. Two storeys, 2 bays front block, with stair at rear linked to added rear block with a cross wing.
Entrance within a 3-bay shallow arched arcade of timber on the N side linking the front with the rear wing. Each arch has a key and ball pendant. Front elevation has long French windows to ground floor with arched glazing bars and cambered stone arches. Six-paned sashes to first floor, also with intersecting 'Gothic' tracery. Roof hipped, with tall central brick stack carrying four yellow vented clayware pots. Further stack to rear wall. Stair window on NE elevation over verandah is in the form of a long narrow rectangle opening as an oval at the centre, filled with web pattern leading.
The rear wing and the rear block has a long sloping roof and 16-paned sash.
Reason for designation
Included as a handsome example of a Regency period house.
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