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
16303
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
14/08/1995
Date of Amendment
14/08/1995
Name of Property
Farm-building at Porthamel Farm
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Talgarth
Town
Locality
Porthamel
Easting
315937
Northing
235170
Street Side
Location
Located W of the gatehouse and SW of the farmhouse, forming the N side of the early farmyard at Porthamel.
Description
Broad Class
Agriculture and Subsistence
Period
History
Great Porthamel was the major medieval manor house of the area, built in the late C15, within a walled precinct, the seat of Sir William Vaughan, the first sheriff of the county. The farm building, probably of the C18 was probably originally a cowhouse, later used as stabling and now a workshop and store, and includes two reset medieval doorways, perhaps taken from the precinct wall.
Exterior
Sandstone, with corrugated iron roof. Two storeys. 6 bays, extended to W with a 2-storey lean-to building, originally a granary, with external stair. Main door central on N side, with chamfered lintel, with a further blocked opening immediately to the E. Small ventilation slits, mostly blocked, and door to E gable also blocked. To rear, two re-set late medieval chamfered arched doorways, and two pitching doors above.
Interior
Tie and principal rafter trusses, with morticed collars missing. Upper floor is carried on a central runner supported at intervals by chamfered posts.
Reason for designation
Included for group value with the listed grade I and II* gatehouse and manorial house, and for its re-use of surviving medieval work.
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