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
83090
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
03/09/2004
Date of Amendment
03/09/2004
Name of Property
Cross Cottage
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Abbey Cwmhir
Town
Locality
Abbey Cwmhir
Easting
305396
Northing
271266
Street Side
Location
On the S side of the churchyard.
Description
Broad Class
Period
History
Built as a National school and school house in 1857 (date on building) by Francis Aspinall Philips. In 1868 Philips had it converted to a laundry for his new house, The Hall, when a new school was built further away from the village centre. Now a dwelling.
Exterior
A 2-storey school with a slightly lower house forming a S wing and an L-shaped plan. Walls are red brick with yellow-brick raised quoins. The roof is slate enriched with bands of fish-scale slates and fret-cut barge boards with finials, with ridge stack and inserted skylights to the house. The house is entered in the gable end, which has a plain gabled porch with panelled doors under a freestone lintel. Windows are segmental-headed 2-light casements with small-pane iron-frame Gothic glazing bars. The E side wall has a single hooded window in each storey, under a gablet in the upper storey. The W side wall has 2 windows in the lower storey, a similar window upper L and a single-light iron-frame window to the upper R, both beneath the eaves. On the L side of the house is a panelled door to the school room, with 2-light iron-frame casement beneath the eaves. The W gable end has a similar upper storey window and a pointed ground-floor window with wooden Y-tracery. The E gable end has 3 stepped, pointed ground-floor windows with freestone hoods and foliage stops. The outer windows are fixed, the central window is wider and has a horned sash window with Y-tracery glazing bars. The upper storey has 2 pointed windows with Y-tracery, and in the gable is a freestone shield with 'FAP' (Francis Aspinall Philips) in raised letters, above a scroll bearing the date 1857. The rear (N) elevation has ground-floor pointed windows with Y-tracery either side of an external stack reduced to eaves level.
Interior
Not inspected.
Reason for designation
Listed for its architectural interest as a well-preserved C19 school and school house retaining original character and detail, and for its contribution to the historic character of the village.
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