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
8307
Building Number
41
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
10/04/1989
Date of Amendment
10/04/1989
Name of Property
41 High Street
Address
41 High Street
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Llanidloes
Town
Locality
Easting
295534
Northing
284403
Street Side
Location
Midway between New Street and Great Oak Street. No 42 was originally combined with Nos 43 and 44 and known as The Comrades PH.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Group of cottages said to date back to 1646 when they were single storey. Enlarged in mid C18 and then refronted probably ca 1800.
Exterior
3 + 1-window to No 40, 2-window to Nos 41 and 42; scribed cement render fronts to Nos 40 and 41 and painted pebbledash to No42; rubble, brick and weatherboarded plinths. renewed slate roofs, wide boarded eaves, red brick chimney stacks, modern to No 42 rear verge. No 42 is slightly splayed back from Nos 40 and 41. Small pane sash windows with flush frames, 12-pane to 1st floor, and 16-pane below; 9-pane over the low carriage entry between Nos 40 and 41 (square headed to front and segmental arched to rear). 6-panel doors, part glazed to No 42. Slate hung left gable end. The passage has rubble base and is weatherboarded up to half its height; the original depth of the building is shown by the extent of the weatherboarding - the rear part is full height rubble walled.
2-storey modern extension at rear of No 40 to replace a brick cottage. The remainder of the rear is rubble with brick dressings. 3-windows to Nos 41 and 42 with lean-to and modern casement windows to the former and some small pane metal frame casement windows to the latter with lean-to porch.
The room over the passage in No 40 shows evidence of the earlier roof pitches as well as a blocked opening. The earlier timberwork is in oak, the later work in pine, No 41 has C18 roof with overlapping purlins and the central truss was once a partition; handrail sweeps up to top with balustrade; timber frame partitions to ground floor, No 42 has chamfered beams.
Interior
Reason for designation
Group value.
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