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
20842
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
19/11/1998
Date of Amendment
19/11/1998
Name of Property
Dyffryn
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
The Vale of Grwyney
Town
Locality
Dyffryn
Easting
325729
Northing
220249
Street Side
Location
Approximately 1.7km E of Llanbedr church, set back on S side of a minor road between Dyffryn and Partrishow
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Built in 1634 (date on doorway) and consisting originally of the house and an attached byre with cross passage. The plan was unusual in having the main doorway in the lateral wall rather than the gable end, but otherwise the layout consisted of a hall with a subdivided inner room, characteristic of the district. A higher wing was added early C18. Later the original byre was demolished; subsequently a lean-to was added in its place and a shallow porch was added.
Exterior
Two-storey house consisting of a main range with higher wing to L and shallow lean-to to R, forming an L-plan. Of rubble stone walls pebble-dashed and painted white. Slate roofs, the main range gabled the wing hipped. Tall roughcast stacks to R, L, and rear of wing, and a shorter stack to front R in wing. The front has a doorway to R inside a gabled porch to the main range, and has a stop-chamfer surround with a Tudor head engraved ‘1634 WM'. The door is studded with strap hinges and has a door knocker also incised ‘1634 WM'. To L of doorway the 2-window main range has a 2-light casement (to hall) and a fixed light (to original service room) in earlier openings to ground floor of main range, with C20 3-light casement upper L and a C19 horned sash upper centre. The 2-window wing has C20 2-light casements in the lower storey, and C19 horned sashes above. An added, low 1-storey projection is to L. In the L side wall of the wing are C19 horned sashes upper centre, and offset to L in lower storey, with small window to R in lower storey. The rear wall of the wing has 2 similar sashes in the lower storey. The W side wall has similar windows.
Interior
Not inspected at time of survey (November 1997), but recorded by Jones and Smith as retaining a fireplace stair and a post-and-panel partition in the main range, and an C18 stair in the wing.
Reason for designation
A good example of a sub-medieval regional type showing C18 improvement.
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