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
7888
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
11/03/1981
Date of Amendment
22/02/1995
Name of Property
Abercrombie House (Post Office and Stores)
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Guilsfield
Town
Locality
Guilsfield
Easting
321976
Northing
311632
Street Side
Location
Located at the centre of the village.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Exterior
A timber framed house, C17 and early C19 faced with colourwashed brickwork on the main S elevation. Two storeys, 3 bays, the centre bay wider, and two external stacks to the rear serving the end bays, one stack now reduced in height. The S elevation has a central 6-panelled door within a trellis porch, and on the ground floor two-centred half-brick arched windows in Trawscoed estate style, the upper floor windows of 2-light metal frames. Brick dentilled eaves.
The house is extended to the rear by a link into a 2-bay brick building with gable stack, roofed at right angles, and the gable end is further extended to the road frontage by a C20 addition (not included), containing the post office. A lean-to along the rear joins the brick building.
Interior
Reason for designation
Of interest as having a facade of distinctive local style, and the earlier rear structure being unusual in having external stacks to the end bays.
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