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
17055
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
15/12/1995  
Date of Amendment
 
Name of Property
Pontithel House  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Powys  
Community
Gwernyfed  
Town
 
Locality
Pontithel  
Easting
316467  
Northing
236667  
Street Side
SE  
Location
Located on the road from Brecon to Hay, approximately 150m E of Pont Ithel.  

Description


Broad Class
Domestic  
Period
 

History
Early C19 house. Occupied in 1881 by the Manager of the former naphtha extraction works which stood to the rear and operated from the mid-late C19, working into the 1920's.  

Exterior
A house of the early C19, of colourwashed stone with a slate roof. Two storeys, basement and attics. Three bays, with an attached outbuilding to the W gable end converted to accommodation in the late C20. Central 6-panelled door in timber pilastered doorcase, the canopy missing. Sixteen paned sashes to ground and first floors, but 12-pane sash over door; all opening with cambered heads and stone sills. Gable stacks. Windows to attics in gable ends. Front garden railings and gates set on a low wall, taking up slope of the ground. The rails are looped round-section iron bars, threaded through horizontal iron flats. Stanchions have pointed finials. Central gate, and a secondary gate to the left with dog rails.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
Included as a well preserved early C19 house.  

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