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
85437
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
14/10/2005
Date of Amendment
14/10/2005
Name of Property
Berthlwyd
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Ystradfellte
Town
Aberdare
Locality
Nedd Fechan Valley
Easting
291304
Northing
213238
Street Side
Location
On the E side of the Nedd Fechan some 1.7 km W of Ystradfellte village.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Farmhouse, probably late C18 to early C19. The church has a memorial to Thomas Jones of Berthlwyd died 1779. T. & W. Williams occupied Berthlwyd and Gernfawr in 1926. Restored in late C20 for the National Trust.
Exterior
Farmhouse, colourwashed rubble stone with slate roofs and whitewashed stone end stacks. Two-storey, three-window range of hornless sashes with cambered heads, stone voussoirs and stone sills, and centre door in large colourwashed stone porch. Porch has cambered head to entry. Door within is 9-panel. Similar cambered head. Added service range set back to right is whitewashed with whitewashed stone right end stack. Horned 4-pane sash over cambered-headed casement pair to left and cambered headed door to centre. Brick heads to ground floor openings.
Rear of house has one window each floor to right and one to first floor left, all small with cambered heads, and service wing is outshut to rear with long rear roof.
Interior
Simple interior. Kitchen has stone flags and two beams, dairy behind has stone flags and slate low shelves. Main house has two room plan with enclosed stair from principal room which has renewed oak lintel over fireplace, two oak beams, one chamfered and stopped. Hooks in ceiling. Six-panel door to parlour at left end.
Reason for designation
Included for its special interest as a traditional farmhouse in late Georgian style, carefully restored.
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