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.
Date of Designation
19/01/1953
Date of Amendment
05/04/1993
Name of Property
U-Plan outbuilding Ranges to N. & E. of Calcott Hall
Location
Isolated position, one mile east of Four Crosses and 1.25 miles NNW of Llandrinio.
History
Built about 1725 in early Georgian style with later alterations.
Exterior
Red brick with dressed stone quoins. Two storeys and cellar, square block of three bays, hipped slate roof.
Central octagonal timber lantern with glazed sides, slated roof and lead ridges. Brick stack to right hip, stack to left collapsed 1990. Brick band between storeys. West front with prominent later facade rising to high ogee pediment with stone coping. Later brick lean-tos to rear.
Window openings largely altered; originally regular arrangement of segmental headed cross windows, one survives on the south face, others are infilled with later sashes or partially blocked with modern windows inserted. West front has three window arrangement of very large tripartite sashes under flat brick arches and a smaller gable sash. Part glazed panelled door raised up three steps, glazed open fronted porch with slate canopy.
Outbuildings: Courtyard arrangement of good quality red brick and slate farm buildings lying immediately to the north of and adjoining the house. Date "1858" set in cobbled yard. One and two storey along N side with cross-gabled loft and segmented openings (cart-shed openings blocked).
Reason for designation
An unusually rare example in Montgomeryshire of an early Georgian country house, now in deteriorating condition. Interior not inspected but believed to retain good doorcase detail and a fine contemporary staircase.
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