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
6674
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
19/07/1963
Date of Amendment
21/10/1998
Name of Property
Cwm Gu Cottage including attached barn
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Llanfihangel Cwmdu with Bwlch and Cathedine
Town
Crickhowell
Locality
Tretower
Easting
319973
Northing
220900
Street Side
Location
Approximately 1.4km ESE of Tretower church on S side of a minor road between Tretower and Crickhowell.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Built in 1633 (date on lintel) and consisting of a hall with pantry and unheated parlour, beyond which was an attached byre. The original byre was replaced by the present barn probably early C18. The windows were renewed late C20.
Exterior
Two-storey cottage of rubble sandstone with tile roof, and stone stack with diagonal shaft to L end. The front has a pentice carried on 7 brackets (which are continuations of the internal cross-beams) and with stone tile roof. The doorway at L end has stop-chamfer surround and a shaped door head, above which is inscribed '1633 + H:C'. Above the doorway is a small casement. Also casement windows to centre and R. The barn attached to R gable end is lower (creasing of an earlier byre or barn is visible at a higher level in gable end of house) and of rubble stone with slate roof. Full-height double doors to the cart passage are centrally placed under a canopy; a boarded door to R has a stone lintel. Rear of house has inserted casement windows; the barn has full-height double doors to cart passage.
Interior
Lobby-entry, 2-unit plan. In the lower storey are cross beams with crude chamfers and stepped stops. Fireplace stairs in stone now said to be replaced in wood.
Reason for designation
A good example of a small sub-medieval house with excellent retention of original detail.
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