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
84413
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
27/05/2005
Date of Amendment
27/05/2005
Name of Property
1 Pensarn
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Cadfarch
Town
Locality
Glaspwll
Easting
273677
Northing
298014
Street Side
Location
Located approx. 0.5km N of Glaspwll, on the W side of the lane which leads towards Machynlleth.
Description
Broad Class
Period
History
Early C20 estate cottages with Arts & Crafts detail. The Garthgwynion estate was established c1911 by the founder of the Owen-Owen department stores. The Owen family built new properties, such as these semi-detached workers' cottages, whilst other farms and cottages were acquired and remodelled.
Exterior
No. 1 has entrance into side of porch wing with half-glazed door to R; a boarded door to L leads into an outbuilding.
Interior
Interior not seen at resurvey.
Reason for designation
Listed as an unaltered pair of early C20 estate cottages, retaining their architectural character and Arts & Crafts detail.
Group Description
1 & 2 Pensarn
A mirrored pair of 2-storey 2-window cottages, roughcast and white-washed under a hipped slate roof with central slate-hung ridge stack. Detail includes over-hanging eaves and eye-brow dormers to garden front. The windows are narrow horned sashes, mainly grouped, under shallow segmental heads. Entrance front facing road has narrow single-storey porch wing to centre, the entrances to sides. Main range has 2 x 12-pane sashes flanking porch wing, with narrow 6-pane light to outer sides. The upper storey has a window to each cottage, aligned towards the centre, each a 2-light 12-pane sash immediately under the eaves.
Garden front facing W. Each cottage has an original part-glazed boarded door to outer side under a flat-roofed canopy on moulded brackets. Wide tripartite window to inner side of each cottage, with fixed 16-pane light flanked by 8-pane sashes. Aligned above is a tripartite sash with segmental head under an eye-brow dormer. The N and S ends have the mirrored window arrangements. The N end has a pair of 4-pane sashes to L, and a similar single light to R, all under segmental heads. Upper floor has tripartite sash to L and single light to R, immediately under the eaves.
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