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
8740
Building Number
Grade
II*
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
18/09/1962
Date of Amendment
31/01/1995
Name of Property
Ashbrook House (The Kilvert Gallery)
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Clyro
Town
Locality
Clyro
Easting
321451
Northing
243859
Street Side
Location
Lies at north-east end of Clyro village. Prominent position fronting main through road. Clyro brook runs through a culvert on the south side of the property.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
c 1852, built for the agent of the Clyro Court estate. The front door leads into a small room which was used for wage payments, rent audits etc. The diarist Rev Francis Kilvert, curate of Clyro, lodged at Ashbrook House from 1865-1872 and is commemorated by a stone plaque on the front wall. He refers to it in the diaries as Ty Dulas and it is during his Clyro years that the most highly regarded volumes of his Diary were written.
Exterior
L-plan, two storeys with basement and attics, lower service range at south-east end. Stone, part roughcast render to rear elevations. Slate roof, boxed eaves, rubble stacks. Mostly twelve-pane sash windows with machine-tooled stone lintels and cills. Six-panel front door up steps in corner of north-west front. Side door next to shuttered French window under slate-roofed verandah, verandah and forecourt have plain hooped railings. North-east side has exceptionally large multipane staircase window with intersecting glazing bars and smaller attic dormer above in Regency Gothic style - small pane glazing and intersecting tracery under pointed arch heads. Basement door in similar pointed arched opening.
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Interior
Good survival of original features and fittings except for some fireplaces. Six-panel doors to principal rooms, boarded to service rooms. Re-used panelling in attics and basement (said to have come from old Clyro church).
Reason for designation
Graded II* primarily for the historic associations with Rev Francis Kilvert.
Group value with neighbouring listed items.
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