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
8761
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
18/09/1960
Date of Amendment
09/03/1995
Name of Property
Pendre
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Painscastle
Town
Locality
Painscastle
Easting
316646
Northing
246353
Street Side
N
Location
Prominent village location on north side of main through road, set back on slightly rising ground.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Exterior
C17 but possibly incorporates earlier fabric. Lobby entry plan with central chimney stack incorporating back-to-back fireplaces. One-and-a-half storeys, rubble stone, overpainted. Tile roof, rubble ridge stack and projecting rubble end stack to east. Large rubble gable porch with arched entry and wall benches. Ovolo-moulded door frame, boarded door. Mainly C19/C20 small-paned casement windows to front including three gabled eaves dormers. In the rear wall are two ovolo-moulded mullion windows, one now blocked.
Interior
Good period features including exposed beams, post and panel screen dividing two westerly rooms and square-panel timber framed partition wall between the lower hall and two end rooms. The latter wall has an original opening with ornate doorhead. Remnants only of C18 stairs rising beside central stack. East side of stack has large open fireplace with timber lintel, west fireplace now blocked.
Reason for designation
Included as an attractive example of a regional vernacular house retaining good internal features.
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