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
6695
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
04/01/1952
Date of Amendment
21/10/1998
Name of Property
1 The Old Inn
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Llanfihangel Cwmdu with Bwlch and Cathedine
Town
Locality
Tretower
Easting
318563
Northing
221461
Street Side
S
Location
On S side of main road through Tretower, NW of parish church.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
The building began early C17 with a single house, the upper house (No 2), to which a lower house (No 3) was added nearly at right angles by mid C17. The upper house consisted of a hall and inner room, together with an outside cross passage and an outer room which were rebuilt C19 (No 1). The lower house had an outside cross passage wide enough for a cart and leading directly to a wide barn doorway across the yard. The existence of 2 attached houses of approximately equal status, sharing a single farm yard and working the farm jointly, is probably the result of gavelkind (the division of a holding equally among sons), one of a number of examples in the Cwmdu area (the others at Llandegeman, Llwynau Mawr, Cilfaenor and possibly Middle Gaer and Upper Gaer). Became a public house C19, of which the main bar was in the upper house (No 2) and had a new main entrance to the street, but was converted back to dwellings late C20 and subdivided into its 3 distinct historical units.
Exterior
The upper house (Nos 1 and 2) has original stone stacks L of centre and to R, and a C19 stack over L gable end. The original front facing the yard has added lean-tos and inserted 1- and 2-light casements in first floor. The 3-window early C19 front is on the N side facing the road and is pebble-dashed. In the lower storey are 12-pane hornless sashes, in the upper storey similar 9-pane sashes. A doorway with boarded door is L of centre and reached down steps. In the E gable end is a corbelled 1st-floor stack with added window to its L.
Interior
Not inspected at time of survey (September 1997).
Reason for designation
In origin an important example of the sub-medieval Breconshire farmhouse retaining much of its early plan form and high-quality detail.
Group Description
1, 2 and 3 The Old Inn
Two houses joined to form a rough L-shape facing a yard. Of rubble sandstone painted white, and stone-tile roofs. The upper house, including its rebuilt end, is on N side beside the main road, with the lower house at an oblique angle to SE.
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