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
20863
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
19/11/1998
Date of Amendment
19/11/1998
Name of Property
Henbant Fawr
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
The Vale of Grwyney
Town
Locality
Henbant
Easting
324505
Northing
220790
Street Side
Location
Prominently-sited on high ground approximately 0.6km NE of Llanbedr church at the end of a minor road.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Early C17 and built as a hall with gable-end entry, 2 inner rooms and fireplaces at either end (possibly with a corbelled 1st-floor stack, typical of the locality, at the higher end). The house was later extended by 1 unit at the higher end, and subsequently a wing was added to the lower end late C19, after which a small porch was added. Late C20 the building was divided between house and holiday cottage, with formation of a new doorway in added unit of main range
Exterior
Two-storey house consisting of a main range with a lower 2-storey wing set back to R. Battered walls of rubble stone painted white, the wing with bigger quoins. The main house has large stone stacks to R, and L of centre, the wing has end stone stack to R heightened in brick. The main range has a 3-window front (the unit to L being the later addition). The original house has 12-pane hornless sashes (replaced lower R); the unit to L has inserted doorway and window above. The gable end to L has inserted windows and a blocked opening beneath the ridge. The 1-window wing has a brick lean-to porch to L side, to R of which are horned sashes in each storey. The R gable end of the main range is rendered. Behind, the main range has 2 small C19 casements inserted below the wall plate. (A butt joint to R in main range distinguishes the added unit at the higher end.)
Interior
The hall retains a post-and-panel partition with one Tudor-headed doorway, and a stone fireplace stair.
Reason for designation
Good example of a sub-medieval regional house type forming a strong visual group with the outbuildings.
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