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
17934
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
20/03/1996
Date of Amendment
20/03/1996
Name of Property
Railings and Gates to Caerfynnon
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Llanerfyl
Town
Locality
Llanerfyl
Easting
303469
Northing
309726
Street Side
N
Location
30347
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Exterior
Location: Prominently located on the north side of the A458 opposite its junction with the minor road from Tynewydd.
History: Built c1800. Originally a farmhouse and Inn. At one time known as the Cross Foxes, later the Wynnstay Arms.
Exterior: Main block a 2 storeyed, 3-window range with central entrance and gable end stacks, flanked on each side by a lower 2-storeyed bay, slightly set back. Rear wing to E. Slate hanging to main range which is timber-framed to rear; rendered flanking blocks. Slate roofs with end wall stacks throughout. Central entrance with open-work timber-panelled porch with lozenge decoration to frieze. Flanking windows are tall 16-pane sashes with fine glazing bars and reveals. Similar detail to 12-pane sashes of first floor. Similar windows in flanking blocks, but with French doors inserted to ground floor at each side. Light-timber framing in rear of main range, including lean-to at ground floor. Painted brick nogging. Largely modern openings in lean-to but 2 small-paned horizontally sliding sash windows with small panes to first floor (a third window is renewed in an earlier opening). Rear wing is brick with small-paned iron 3-light windows with chambered brick heads.
Stone steps lead up to the front door. The front garden is bounded by iron railings on a stone plinth. The rails have fleur-de-lis style heads and there are 2 gates, 1 to the front and 1 to the W side.
Listed as a well preserved former farmhouse of c1800 with townscape and group value.
References: Enclosure award c1826; Tithe map c1850; W.T.R. Pryce, The Photographer in Rural Wales, 1991, pp95, 97
Interior
Reason for designation
Group Description
Caerfynnon, including railings and gates
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