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
82421
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
28/01/2004
Date of Amendment
28/01/2004
Name of Property
Cain Villa
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Llanfechain
Town
Locality
Llanfechain village
Easting
318763
Northing
320654
Street Side
Location
At the south side of the road leaving Llanfechain to the north-east.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Formerly the site of a row of small cottages, part of which survives as the adjacent Wesley Cottage. Cain Villa was probably built in the mid-Victorian period.
Exterior
A symmetrical two-storey, three-window house set back from the road, with a brickwork walled and steel-gated forecourt. The house is in yellow brick painted white, and slate-hung on the north side from eaves to ground storey sill level. There is an original central porch on the south (garden) side and a modern central porch on the north side. Slate roof with tile ridge; brick end-chimneys with pots.
The fenestration confirms that the garden elevation is to be regarded architecturally as the front. Four-pane hornless sash-windows above and below, with brick segmental arches and stone sills. (A heavy growth of ivy conceals whether there was a middle window upstairs.) A specially good feature is the four panel original door, with heavy nouldings to the lower panels and glazing in the upper panels,also its open-fronted original porch with trellis sides and a cornice and a carved front arch with little pendant.
At north, to the yard, the house has 12-pane horizontally sliding sash windows.
Interior
Irregular plan layout. The house has been extended one bay into the adjacent Wesley Cottage.
Reason for designation
A small mid-Victorian village house which has retained its character.
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