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
17338
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
01/10/1996
Date of Amendment
01/10/1996
Name of Property
Sylfaen
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Churchstoke
Town
Montgomery
Locality
Churchstoke
Easting
327171
Northing
294010
Street Side
Location
Adjoining house and shop located centrally within the village, opposite the Court House Public House on the corner of Cae Camlad. Cobbled paving in front.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
The original building had a double depth plan and was masonry-built . A number of subsequent developments occurred including the addition of a short, right-angled rear wing and the addition of an early C19 brick facade with shop front. The shop front was subsequently enlarged and altered. Marked on the 1840 Tithe Map as House, Shop, Office and Warehouse. Locally known as ‘The Top Shop’.
Exterior
Interior
No access was available to the interior at time of inspection (January1996).
Reason for designation
Listed as a well preserved and unaltered example of small, C18 village houses with a good c1900 shop front. Townscape value.
Group Description
Sylfaen and Brynafon
Double depth plan with additional rear wing. 2 storeys and cellar, 4-window range. Brick front with rubble to left hand bay, slate roofs, 2 red brick ridge stacks, one end stack to rear range. The house and shop each have a 2 unit plan with central chimney and front door. The upper storey windows of the front elevation are 12-pane cast iron casements rising to the eaves with stone sills and cast iron quadrant stays. The ground floor windows are similar 16-pane casements under stone wedge lintels. A window to the S of the shop front is tripartite under a round headed arch. The house has a 4-panelled front door in a doorcase which has a flat cornice, consoles, moulded pilasters and is approached by stone steps. The shop front is intersected by a door and forms a projecting unit with a flat entablature which runs from end to end. It appears that the door, which is similar to that in the house but with wider pilasters, has been moved outwards to meet it. The shop front consists of plain wooden frames on red-brown brick bases, but the windows have been boarded over. The S half of the shop front is later than the N half. The rear range, like the left bay of the front range is in random rubble masonry, but it has modern doors and windows. The short, rear wing has a light timber-framed gable end and there is an outshut section between the two rear ranges. A dog kennel butts against the N end of the building and there is a cast iron casement window above.
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