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
83041
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
05/08/2004
Date of Amendment
05/08/2004
Name of Property
Rhiwgoch
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Glantwymyn
Town
Locality
Tal y wern
Easting
282534
Northing
299981
Street Side
Location
Located within a bend on a lane which runs S from Tal y Wern, and approx. 0.5km from the village.
Description
Broad Class
Period
History
The building probably has C18 origins, the detail altered in the C19. Shown as now on the tithe map of 1846.
Exterior
Long 3-window house of one-and-a-half storeys, constructed of rubble stone, roughcast to front, under a slate roof, the stone end stacks with yellow brick quoins. Gabled porch with moulded barge boards to R of centre with half-glazed boarded door, flanked by 12-pane horned sash windows under segmental brick heads. Similar windows aligned above under gablets. Four-pane horned sash window to far L, also with segmental brick head; similar window above. No openings to W gable end. Rear, only visible from road, is of random stone with some 4-pane sash windows.
The E gable end is adjoined by a lofted farm range, in front of which is a long narrow lean-to of rubble stone. The L half of the range and the lean-to have slate roofs, the R half of the range has a corrugated iron roof. Doorway to far L containing split doors; planked door to L end of lean-to. The R end of the lean-to is occupied by 2 pig sties with full-height doorways; in front are rubble stone pens with flat stone copings and small doorways. The E gable end of the farm range is on boulder footings and has a small casement window offset to L of upper storey. To the rear, the unit behind the pig sties is a cart-shed, with external stone stairs to R. These lead to a C20 attic room with planked door, 2 large wooden windows and vertical timber boarding. The R part of the range has a planked door to L, a small window to R and a loft hatch in a raked half-dormer.
Interior
No access to interior at time of inspection.
Reason for designation
Listed as a good sub-medieval regional house retaining C17 and C19 character and detail.
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