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
6671
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
19/07/1963
Date of Amendment
21/10/1998
Name of Property
Vine Tree Cottage
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Llanfihangel Cwmdu with Bwlch and Cathedine
Town
Locality
Tretower
Easting
318651
Northing
221345
Street Side
S
Location
In the centre of Tretower W of a junction with minor road to Tretower Court. The front faces S down a footpath, to rear is a pavement at high level.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Early C17 house consisting of a hall and parlour, together with an outer room having its own stair, above which was a first-floor fireplace. A single-storey dairy was added to the original parlour early C18. The house was divided into 2 dwellings mid C20.
Exterior
Interior
Not inspected at time of survey (August 1997), but said to retain fireplace stairs and post-and-panel partition between hall and parlour.
Reason for designation
Listed for the special interest of its origins as a good example of a traditional Breconshire farm house of C17, retaining good original detail.
Group Description
Vine Tree Cottage & 2 Vine Tree Cottages
Two-storey rubble stone house with roughcast front and pebble-dashed rear, all painted cream, and slate roof. Stone stack R of centre with diagonal shaft, replaced stone stack to R and C19 stone stack to L. Three-window front (of which No.2 Vine Tree Cottages occupies unit to R and has 2 lately added roof dormers), with centre-pivoting small-pane windows to centre and L in the upper storey, and 3-light window to R with ovolo mullions. Doorway to R of centre has a shaped head and a boarded door with strap hinges. Enlarged casement window R of doorway and small-pane casement to L. L of centre is the single-storey former dairy with modern openings, which has a further projection of rubble stone with end stone stack and replaced openings, added C19. In the gable end to R is a stepped external stack on 1st-floor corbels, and a continuous drip stone at eaves level. In the rear elevation is a shallow stair turret L of centre, to L of which are casement windows in each storey, both additions. To R of stair turret is a small-pane casement in upper storey in earlier opening, and 3 fixed lights R of centre in lower storey at pavement level. In the L gable end is a 1-storey modern projection.
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