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
8941
Building Number
Grade
II*
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
24/10/1951
Date of Amendment
26/03/1985
Name of Property
Old Impton Farmhouse
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Presteigne
Town
Locality
Norton
Easting
329202
Northing
267046
Street Side
Location
Sited uphill to NW of Norton Manor and approached by a long road from Norton Village.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Exterior
Late medieval L-plan ranges on E side with early C17 porch, parlour wing added to rear over looking Presteigne to south. Richard Flower is believed to have made these additions about 1625 when he was High Sheriff. 1 storey entrance front stepped uphill to right with higher rear gable to left, 2 storey timber framed porch to centre and 1 storey plus attic returned range on right. Mostly colour washed rubble with some brick work, roughcast to right, stone slate roofs with bargeboards, exposed tie-beam to right gable with massive C16 stone stack in centre roof, later casement windows.
Splendid jettied porch with close studding to sides, oriel treatment to 1st floor casement windows with moulded cill beam and diagonally studded apron. Carved bressemers supported by timber piers with 4 centred arch enriched by Gothic tracery patterns, carved angle braces with roses and carpenters' tools, moulded intersecting ceiling ribs with feathered stop chamfers, boarded inner door.
2 storey parlour range with S front partly over laps the earlier gable end to right (purlin of the older roof supports the later gable). Stone slab roof with large stone stack to rear pitch (possibly enlarged from a lateral chimney), plastered walls, curved brackets to jetty; some close studding, jettied gable and rubble chimney breast to W gable end. Four 2-light casements to 1st floor, sashes with glazing bars to ground floor including one pair grouped with pilastered door piece, right end with 4-light casements under relieving arch.
Interior retains massive chamfered trusses and fireplaces to earlier ranges the parlour range retains fine roll-moulded beams with feathered stop chamfers and counter changing joists, some panelling (partly re-used), later timber stair.
References: Brooksby, 1971, pp. 23 and 38-39.
Haslam "Powys", p.262.
Smith, "Houses of Welsh Countryside", pp415, 481, 503.
Interior
Reason for designation
Group value.
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