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
8614
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
22/03/1993
Date of Amendment
22/03/1993
Name of Property
Compton House
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Llanfyllin
Town
Locality
Easting
314180
Northing
319462
Street Side
Location
To L of Old White Lion.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Early C19 in appearance but much remains of C17 or earlier house, refronted and enlarged late C18.
Exterior
Three storey, two window front, rendered (quoins), slate roof rectangular brick chimneys. Second floor windows six-pane sashes; first floor has twelve-pane sashes. On ground floor to L, mid C19 shopfront, double-leaf entrance doors (part-glazed) set back between shop windows. Classically derived end pilasters support fascia with cornice. To R of shopfront, passageway with exposed stop-chamfered beams, entrance to house to L. To rear, section over passageway weather-boarded (said to be timber-framed beneath). To R of this, roofslope continues over slightly lower rubble section with lateral chimney with brick stack.
Interior
Interior has exposed stop-chamfered beams and joists, and some exposed timber-framing with infill in wattle and daub and Llanfyllin brick.
Reason for designation
Group value.
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