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.
Date of Designation
21/10/1998
Date of Amendment
21/10/1998
Name of Property
Knight's Mill
Community
Llanfihangel Cwmdu with Bwlch and Cathedine
Locality
Pont-y-bryn-hurt
Location
Isolated house approximately 200m ENE of Glanusk Bridge.
History
By Robert Lugar, and erected 1830s as part of the Glanusk Estate, next to the estate mill.
Exterior
Tudor-Gothic style cottage of one-and-a-half storeys, consisting of a main range with wing set back to R. Of rubble stone with stone tile roof and foiled barge boards. The main range has half-hipped roof to front, while wing is half-hipped to R. A stone ridge stack on wing has 3 diagonal stone shafts. To the front, the main range has a canted bay with 3-light mullioned and transomed window and a 2-light casement with hood mould above. The wing has a similar 2-light window and is beneath a canopy under catslide roof supported on 2 square timber posts. The main doorway is the side wall of the main range and has a wooden frame with Tudor-arched head, a boarded and ribbed door, and hood mould. The end wall of wing has 2-light windows under hood moulds. The L side wall of main range has a gabled projection R of centre with an inserted C20 window in lower storey and blind narrow window above. A further blocked window is set back at L end.
Interior
Not inspected at time of survey (August 1997).
Reason for designation
Listed as a well-designed mid C19 lodge and as an integral component of the surviving Glanusk Estate buildings.
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