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
81911
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
25/09/2003
Date of Amendment
25/09/2003
Name of Property
Pentre-ucha
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Llansilin
Town
Locality
Pentre
Easting
319529
Northing
328697
Street Side
Location
Reached by a farm track north from the road between Llansilin village and Moelfre; the site stands slightly apart 100 m north-east of the farmstead of Pentre.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Probably C17 or C18. The present two-unit main part may have been developed from an earlier single unit building including the large hearth. This appears to have been an early farmhouse in an informal group of farmstead buildings (now named Pentre-ucha, Pentre, and Pentre-bach) appearing collectively as Pentre-moelfre on the Tithe Map of 1843 (Pentre is the present farmhouse, Pentre-bach ruined). It has acquired good domestic windows in the south-facing gable wall.
By the mid C20 Pentre-uchaf had been separated from the others and was part of Moeliwrch farm. It was sold c.1960 to owners who restored it; sold again c.1980, and again recently to the present owners (2003).
A hint of a function of the big hearth and chimney for public baking is preserved in the story of an occupant of Pentre-uchaf in the 1860s. This was 'Old Betsen' described as 'one of the last to bake the special dishes and puddings and to observe the full ritual' of the Mabsant celebrations of St Silin's church 'and its all-night joyousness and dancing with her numerous guests'.
Exterior
A two-storey two-unit cottage in local uncoursed stonework with slate roof and tile ridge. Large lateral chimney at rear (west) surrounded by a later catslide roofed extension.
The house faces east to a garden. Boarded door at left; at right above, a two-light casement window with small panes, the opening for which has been slightly reduced; at right below, a steel window. At left (south) facing the approach lane are small-pane mullion and transom windows above and below, in openings with stone segmental arches, and a small multi-pane window in the rear extension. At right are two small windows irregularly placed. Door and window to rear.
Interior
Two unit, two storey plan with outshut. The house retains its large fireplace, restored.
Reason for designation
A minor farmhouse probably of the C17 with a large hearth and an exceptionally large lateral chimney, which has generally retained its exterior character.
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