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
7482
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
08/11/1985  
Date of Amendment
28/10/2005  
Name of Property
No 1 Church Row  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Powys  
Community
Maescar  
Town
Brecon  
Locality
Defynnog  
Easting
292555  
Northing
227989  
Street Side
W  
Location
Situated at right end of terrace of eight houses backing onto the churchyard in Defynnog village.  

Description


Broad Class
Domestic  
Period
 

History
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.  

Exterior
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
Interior not inspected.  

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

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