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
9034
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
30/09/1985
Date of Amendment
30/09/1985
Name of Property
Llanshay Farmhouse
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Knighton
Town
Locality
Llanshay
Easting
329700
Northing
271835
Street Side
Location
Approximately 3/4 mile SE of Knighton, set back on an uphill site and facing south.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Exterior
Mainly C19 roughcast front to house with earlier, probably C15 and C17, interior and origins. 1-storey and attic with 2-storey cross range to left; 4+1 windows wide, mainly 2-light casements. Slate roof, exposed eaves, central roughcast stack and 3 pitched roof dormers with plain bargeboards.
C17 2-storey 1-window gable ended roughcast cross range (1 storey to rear) originally jettied but later underbuilt in stone. Roughcast stack to left. 1 storey and attic centre rear with modern dormers and later windows; brick walls on stone plinth, brick and roughcast stacks.
Interior
Interior of main range retains 3 cruck couples of probably C15 date (all sawn off below 1st floor level); thick uncusped blades set well in from rear wall as a result of later alterations when roof was heightened and broadened. Probably once an open hall, floored in C17 with feather - stop chamfer beams to main rooms. Fireplace with large timber lintel. Some timber partition walls visible as is the timber frame of the cross range.
Reason for designation
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