7482

 

II  

Designated  

08/11/1985  

28/10/2005  

No 1 Church Row  

 

Powys  

Maescar  

Brecon  

Defynnog  

292555  

227989  

W  

Situated at right end of terrace of eight houses backing onto the churchyard in Defynnog village.  

Domestic  

 

End house of a terrace of eight, built c. 1840 in Tudor style, presumably for one of the gentry estates, but there are buildings marked on the site on a map of 1829. The houses are similar to those in Bull Terrace nearby. No 1 is a mirrored pair with No 2.  

End terrace house, rubble stone with slate deep-eaved roof and red brick end chimneys. Roof has scallopped eaves board, chimneys have renewed red brick diagonally set shafts, pair of shafts each end, the left ones in block of four with chimneys of No 2. Two-storey, three-window range of cross-windows with deep chamfered jambs, stone sills and centre boarded door segmental-pointed chamfered doorway. Windows to ground floor have sandstone hoodmoulds over timber lintels, hoodmould of left window carried also over right window of No 2. Rear has basement with cut stone voussoirs to two cambered heads, two large windows to ground floor with red-brick cambered heads and two windows under eaves. windows are imitation sashes in uPVC, boarded door to basement left opening.  

Interior not inspected.  

Included for its special architectural interest as one of a distinctive terrace of Tudor style estate cottages.