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
8214
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
18/07/1949
Date of Amendment
09/05/1988
Name of Property
Upper Bryn
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Newtown and Llanllwchaiarn
Town
Locality
Penygloddfa
Easting
310159
Northing
292176
Street Side
Location
On the reverse slope of a prominent hill overlooking the town, reached via a farm road off Bryn Lane a quarter of a mile North West of Penygloddfa.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
C17, timber framed,
Exterior
3 unit lobby entry, central chimney regional house; with later C18 wing to S giving overall L shape.
2 storey box frame, square panelled. Weatherboarding to old range and brick W wall with stepped projecting brick stack. Steeply pitched old slate roof. Gabled storeyed porch, jettied to attic and 1st floor. E end forms parlour. Jettied attic on brackets. Lettering RB 1660 to collar and legend "NOT WE FROM KINGS BUT KINGS FROM US" in restored lettering to bressumer. Decorative panel with heraldic crest in form of phoenix(?) to centre (head missing). 3 light casement windows to 1st and ground floors. "Jacobean" style carved figures flank 1st floor window.
Corrugated iron lean-to along rear wall.
Later range box-framed, square panels. Timbers re-faced to E front, rear elevation replaced in brick.
Steep slate roofs, modern brick stack. Two 3 light casements to 1st floor; single similar window to ground floor with 2 light window to left. Modern porch at junction with parlour of earlier building.
The earlier house was in a derelict condition and unoccupied at time of inspection.
Interior
Earlier house - twin service rooms to W with adjoining hall. Twin axial, stop chamfered beams. Moulded doorhead. Parlour beyond chimney remains in use as part of later wing, twin axial beams.
Later wing - axial stop chamfered ceiling beams. C18, 12 panelled door to parlour. C18 turned baluster stair. Later C19 spandrels added to doorcases.
Reason for designation
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