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
654
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
04/01/1966
Date of Amendment
25/09/2003
Name of Property
Priddbwll-mawr
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Llansilin
Town
Locality
Priddbwll
Easting
319777
Northing
326273
Street Side
Location
To north of minor road, 2 km south-west of Llansilin village.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
At the east side the house carries the initials S(?) I and the date 1687 on a shield-shaped datestone.
The house is marked as Plas Priddbwll but noted as Priddbwll-mawr in the Tithe Survey of 1841, a property in the Bonner family with about 70 acres (28.4 hectares).
Exterior
A large house with its two-storey main range lying north/south (north-west/south-east), with a long three-storey cross-wing at the north end, a short three-storey cross-wing at the south end, and dormers centrally to east and west. Later porch in the south-west angle of the main range and north-west cross-wing.
The house is in local uncoursed quasi-rubble masonry with slate roofs. Brick chimney stacks at north and south-west. Fenestration entirely renewed, in timber in small-panes or in upvc, some openings slightly altered.
Interior
Interior not seen. Said to include exposed timber ceiling beams, timber framing and a large fireplace.
Reason for designation
A C17 farmhouse which has retained much of its character, notwithstanding minor alterations.
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