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
6771
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
17/01/1963
Date of Amendment
21/08/1998
Name of Property
Ty Mawr Farmhouse
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Llangors
Town
Locality
Llan-y-wern
Easting
310077
Northing
228665
Street Side
Location
In the centre of the small hamlet of Llan-y-wern NW of the church.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
c 1600 with late C17 alterations, further altered in C20 when improvement grant required replacement of wooden windows with steel and insertion of internal passages in 1960s ; roof collapsed under weight of stone tiles now replaced with slate, involved also some rebuilding of collapsed facing. Described in Brycheiniog survey as a long house derivative with early replacement of byre by kitchen. Whole of Llan-y-wern parish formerly belonged to Brecon Priory and by late C16 house belonged to Richard Gunter whose descendants became the Bowen family; Thomas Bowen High Sheriff 1672 and 1687 may have been responsible for rebuilding lower end of house.
Exterior
Large farmhouse of two units, the smaller unit with a steeper roof pitch side-on to lane. Of limewashed stone rubble with Welsh slate roof and end and ridge stacks. Two storeys and attic. To garden frontage a 2 window range to larger unit left, and single to smaller right; 3 are 4/4 pane sashes of which two are segmentally arched. Gable end to road is battered with blocked square headed formerly mullioned window to staircase with small chamfered attic light above; 9 pane bedroom window. Rear elevation has to left a lean-to porch with round arched doorway, 3 stone steps up to interior which has stone benches, boarded door, small pantry window to right, blocked narrow light left; mounting block left. To right a two storey lean to rear wing with catslide roof and wide, low kitchen stack showing weathercoursing; rear external steps to first floor; some small pane fixed glazing, the rest replaced. Farmyard on other side of lane is large with a range of farm buildings, some derelict.
Interior
Interior not seen but described by owner as retaining 2 storey stone and oak staircase by chimney, timber beams boxed in; fireplaces remodelled.
Reason for designation
Included notwithstanding alterations as a large early farmhouse retaining much of its basic fabric and with a dominating position in this farming hamlet.
Group value with the Church of St Mary, farm buildings of Ty Mawr and Ty Canol.
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