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
8768
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
18/09/1960
Date of Amendment
09/03/1995
Name of Property
New Buildings
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Painscastle
Town
Locality
Llandeilo Graban
Easting
312053
Northing
244446
Street Side
Location
Lies 3.2 kilometres east of Llandeilo Graban parish church.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Date stone on front canopy reads "This House was Erected at the Expense of Hugh Price of this place Gent in the year Anno Dom. 1751". Undergoing complete refurbishment at time of survey (1993) including all new internal plasterwork, new floors, new attic stairs in different position, new dormer windows in different style, modern windows to rear elevations, some new internal partitions and the blocking of most fireplaces.
Exterior
Two storeys with attics and cellar and lower rear wing. Neat coursed rubble blocks to front elevations, hipped slate roofs, ogee eaves cornice. Two end stacks with modern brick uppers, three hipped roof dormers. Central door under pitched-roof canopy set on large carved brackets. Symmetrical arrangement of windows; twelve-pane sashes with exposed bead-moulded boxing under flat voussoir lintels. Rear elevation has door and windows with brick dressings.
Interior
Wide staircase with beaded square newel, closed string, turned balusters and heavy moulded handrail. Door architraving has ogee and bead mouldings. Six-panel doors on ground floor, two-panel on first floor, all with raised and fielded panels and HL hinges. Rear wing formerly back kitchen and dairy beneath granary has re-used crucks. Large open fireplace and adjacent a well-built brick corn drying kiln. Heavy exposed beams and joists. Flagstone floors.
Reason for designation
Included, notwithstanding modern refurbishment, as a fine, dated example of an early Georgian gentry house in Radnorshire.
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