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
7618
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
31/01/1953
Date of Amendment
29/12/1994
Name of Property
Gwern-Owddy
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Llandrinio
Town
Locality
Rhos Common
Easting
328629
Northing
318342
Street Side
N
Location
The house lies opposite the C N end of Gwernowddy Lane, to the NW of its former farm buildings, the large barn having been demolished.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Farmhouse, now house. Early C17, possibly for William ap Guttin ap Howell.
Exterior
Timber framed with graded slate roof replacing straw thatch. Two storeys,original building of 3 bays, type C lobby entry plan with brick and stone stack, now rendered,and cross wing kitchen at W end, and added stone built bay with gable stack on right. Post and panel gabled porch with projecting bracketed wall plate carrying bressumer with zig-zag pattern. Original boarded door. Much restoration with applied timber planking. Timber casement windows, those on first floor with small gables breaking eaves.
Interior
Lobby entry with living room on left, now containing stair.
Reason for designation
Good example of a regional vernacular farmhouse.
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