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
7555
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
10/03/1953
Date of Amendment
25/04/1997
Name of Property
Pontyperchill Farmhouse
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Bettws
Town
Locality
Bechan Valley
Easting
312229
Northing
295119
Street Side
W
Location
Located 1.7km S of Bettws Cedewain church and reached by a short farm road on W side of B4389.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
C17 or early C18 house modified in the C19 by the creation of an attic storey which included insertion of a full-height staircase and windows in the gable of the W wing. Contemporary with this was the replacement of the original windows and stacks, and a new decorative tiled roof.
Exterior
Two-storey plus attic, L-shaped timber framed house, consisting of a main range with cross-wing. C19 roofs of patterned tiles with crested ridge tiles. Two C19 brick stacks with crosses in relief in each face, to R of main range and axial to cross-wing. The main range is framed in square panels while the cross-wing is predominantly close studding but has square panels in the gable with painted cusps. The plaster is impressed with a variety of C19 designs including horseshoes and Tudor roses, while the front range has a single pargeted Tudor rose. The main range has a 2-window front with a 3-light shallow oriel window on brackets to R (under a hipped roof in the lower storey), 2-light to L (in the lower storey flanking the doorway); 4-panel front door. The R gable end has a lean-to with tiled roof, above which the gable is close studded. The rear elevation has fixed lights similar to those of the front elevation. The cross-wing has a doorway at the angle with the main range. Its front gable has 3- and 4-light shallow oriel windows on brackets in lower and upper storey respectively, and 3-light casement inserted C19 in the gable. The ground floor window is under a hipped roof matching that in the main range. The L side wall is weatherboarded with casement windows, while the rear gable has 3-light casements similar to front.
Interior
The house probably originally consisted of a hall and kitchen in the main range and a parlour and service room in the wing. In the C19 this was modified by inserting a staircase in the former hall, while the kitchen became the parlour and vice versa. The C19 staircase is full-height. In the room to R in the main range is a spine beam with ogee stops and a fireplace with original bressumer and timber framed baffle walls with brick nogging. The cross-wing has a buttery reached by stone steps at the rear.
Reason for designation
Listed as a good example of the local tradition of timber framing, of special interest for displaying square panels and close studding in a single building, and for the completeness of it C19 modifications.
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