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
83226
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
15/11/2004
Date of Amendment
15/11/2004
Name of Property
Cwm Farmhouse
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Llanyre
Town
Locality
Llanyre
Easting
305279
Northing
262738
Street Side
Location
Approximately 0.9km NE of Llanyre, reached by a minor road on the N side of the A4081 from Llanyre to Llandrindod Wells.
Description
Broad Class
Period
History
A late medieval cruck-framed hall house. It was converted to a storeyed house in the C17, with back-to-back fireplaces in hall and kitchen (and possibly a lobby entrance), with corresponding parlour and service room, making a near symmetrical plan. In the early-mid C19 openings were renewed. Later a parallel rear wing was added which is first shown on the 1889 Ordnance Survey.
Exterior
A 1½-storey house of rubble stone, steep slate roof and stone ridge stack to the R of centre. Openings have mainly C19 tooled-stone segmental heads. The entrance R of centre has a half-glazed panelled door. On its R side is a wooden cross window and 2-light window at the R end. To the L of the entrance are inserted French doors replacing a former window, and wooden cross window at the L end. Five gabled dormers have 2-light windows with small-pane glazing. To the rear is a central parallel 2-storey C19 wing with replacement windows. On its R side is a lean-to porch with glazed-panel roof. A replacement half-glazed door is in the rear of the main range at the R end.
Interior
The house retains its C17 lobby-entry plan with back-to-back fireplaces. The hall, to the R of the entrance, has an altered timber lintel to the fireplace, and stop-chamfered spine beam. A post-and-panel partition between hall and parlour is concealed. The kitchen to the L of the entrance has a larger fireplace, with timber lintel, and a single cross beam. Part of a post-and-panel partition has survived, on a stone plinth, between kitchen and service room. Parts of 3 cruck trusses, from the late medieval house, are visible.
Reason for designation
Listed for its special architectural interest as a late medieval house showing evidence of changes over many centuries, although retaining its C17 plan form, and forming a strong farm group with the barn.
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