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
8626
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
25/10/1951
Date of Amendment
22/03/1993
Name of Property
Gwyndy
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Llanfyllin
Town
Locality
Easting
314120
Northing
319432
Street Side
Location
Opposite Manor House, behind small walled forecourt.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Front to Vine Square is C19 in character but core of house is late C16/early C17, square panelled timber-framed, jettied to rear. Said to have been originally one house, then three cottages, then remodelled as one house in C19.
Exterior
Two storey, four window house, slate roof, rectangular brick chimneys.
Sixteen-pane hornless sashes with moulded architraves. Third bay has later C19 semi-hexagonal bay with horned sash windows to each floor. Entrance doorway between first and second bays; simple earlier C19 doorcase with Doric pilasters and cornice over. Gable end to R has window in apex and small window with stained glass at first floor level. On ground floor,to L, entrance doorway with early C19 type pedimented doorcase. Angle to rear is jettied; broadly-proportioned first floor window and small ground floor window with casement glazing. To rear of house is wing in rubble with brick dressings, yellow brick chimney; gable end to garden has broad modern window to first floor, and two camber-headed windows with modern glazing. Between house and wing early C20 bathroom extension and glazed outshut.
Interior
Interior remodelled in later C19 but timber-framed construction evident in heavy stop-chamfered beams (some exposed, some plastered). Some exposed timbers especially to NW of house where attic supported by chamfered beam with brackets with chip-carved enrichment (as at Old White Lion and The Hall).
Reason for designation
Group value.
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