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
84143
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
28/02/2005
Date of Amendment
28/02/2005
Name of Property
Upper Bwlch, including attached farm ranges
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Nantmel
Town
Locality
Gaufron
Easting
300316
Northing
268714
Street Side
Location
Approximately 0.75km NNE of Gaufron hamlet, reached from the N side by a farm road S of a minor road between Rhayader and Abbey Cwmhir.
Description
Broad Class
Period
History
A late medieval cruck-framed house, converted to a storeyed house in the C17 with end entry and longhouse-derived plan. The house was altered again in the second half of the C19, when the front was mainly rebuilt in brick and a central entrance was created. The present cow house is also C19 but replaces an earlier similar structure shown on the 1840 Tithe map. The cart shed is also a C19 addition.
Exterior
A 2-storey 3-window house of rubble stone, the front rebuilt in brick to the centre and L side, painted white, with renewed slate roof and stone end stacks. Openings are beneath segmental heads in the lower storey and beneath the eaves in the upper storey. The central door has been replaced. Windows are 6-pane horned sashes. Farm ranges are in line to the R and L. On the L side is an added, open-fronted cart shed with weatherboarded loft, rubble-stone gable end with boarded loft door, and C19 slate roof. Against the R gable end of the house is a weatherboarded cow shed with corrugated-iron roof, which has 5 split boarded doors and 3 boarded loft doors.
Interior
One complete cruck truss survives inside the house, although partly concealed. In the gable end part of a cruck truss has survived embedded within the stonework of the hall fireplace. The present plan of the house is C19 with central hall and dog-leg stair. The former C17 hall, on the R side, has 2 spine beams with stepped stops, and fireplace with big timber lintel and bread oven.
Reason for designation
Listed as a late-medieval house showing evidence of change over several centuries, retaining C19 character and, with the attached farm ranges, a well-preserved Radnorshire farmstead of a type once characteristic of the region.
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