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
6673
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
19/07/1963
Date of Amendment
21/10/1998
Name of Property
Tretower House
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Llanfihangel Cwmdu with Bwlch and Cathedine
Town
Locality
Tretower
Easting
318515
Northing
221429
Street Side
Location
Approximately 200m NW of Tretower church, set back from S side of A479 and reached by private drive.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
An L-plan house is shown on the site in a 1538 survey of Tretower. The present house is an C18 rebuilding or heightening of the earlier house with similar plan and the addition of a rear wing housing the stair.
Exterior
Georgian style two-and-a-half storey house consisting of an entrance range and rear wing, forming an L-plan with entrance and garden fronts, with rear stair projection behind in the angle between the two. Pebble-dashed walls painted pink and hipped slate roof with projecting swept eaves and plastered soffit. Five-bay front has 12-pane hornless sashes and stone sills. The doorway has a half-lit door with panelling below and raised fields (in a C20 glazed porch). Hipped roof dormers to centre and R with 2-light small-pane casements; tall stacks to front L of centre and R. (Early C20 2-storey lean-to to R has 2-light casements.) In the rear wing, the garden front to S is 2-bay, with hipped roof dormers and 1st-floor sashes similar to front, and tall stacks L and R. In lower storey are late C19 French doors with margin glazing. (At L end is C20 1-storey lean-to with raised and shaped verge.) The rear wall of the rear wing has a single 9-pane sash window in upper storey to L. The 2-storey stair projection is 2-window with stepped 12-pane sashes (9-pane upper R). To L of stair projection is a later wing added early C20.
Interior
Main room to front R has cross beams, with stepped stops, re-used from earlier house. Between first floor and attic is a fine C18 dog-leg stair with square newels, moulded string, alternate square and turned balusters and a moulded hand rail. The treads have roll-moulded ends. Windows have panelled shutters; panelled doors.
Reason for designation
A large Georgian house with interesting earlier origins, retaining good historic character and detail.
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