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
16107
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
20/06/1995
Date of Amendment
20/06/1995
Name of Property
Upper Danyforest
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Llanigon
Town
Locality
Danyforest
Easting
323638
Northing
240198
Street Side
Location
The farmhouse is situated on rising land south of Cusop, on the south side of a partly metalled track.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
The house dates from the second half of the 17th century; it has a cowhouse originally accessible from within the house but is aligned with the contours. The house has a two-room plan with an axial chimney and chimneyside stairs. The original front door may have led into the unheated room and there is a blocked external door at the back of the chimney.
Exterior
1 storey with semi-attic, stone with corrugated asbestos & iron roof half-hipped on E; windows C19 & C20 wooden casements. N: C19 plank door & hood, inserted; extended stone slab to E probably to original door & window; W end, old plank door under chamfered lintel. W: timber-lintelled old hayloft entrance. S: blocked central door now a window under stone slab. Internal chimney with moulded cornice, 2 periods, repaired with brick. Lean-to addition to N, modern, rendered, slate roof, metal windows.
Interior
Hall, fireplace with chamfered beam & monolithic jambs, stone chimney-side stairs, deep-chamfered ceiling beam. Inner room: plain joists. Former cowhouse: blocked door to house, miscellaneous ceiling beams; roof 2 bays, tiebeam & collar, wide purlins.
Reason for designation
A small farmhouse dating from the second half of the 17th century with the main features of its interior intact and an original cowhouse under a continuous roof.
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