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
9106
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
16/03/1992  
Date of Amendment
30/06/1998  
Name of Property
Nant-y-Groes  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Powys  
Community
Whitton  
Town
 
Locality
Pilleth  
Easting
326580  
Northing
267929  
Street Side
 
Location
Secluded setting, half a mile north west of Whitton village, approached by a short private drive off the B4356 Llangunllo road.  

Description


Broad Class
Domestic  
Period
 

History
Late C18/early C19, dormer added in early C20; house extended to right in 1938.  

Exterior
Two- and-a-half storeys and cellar with adjoining two-storey gable-ended range of 1938 to right, all roughcast render. Two-storey brick wing to rear with lean-to. Further brick lean-to to kitchen to rear of main range under catslide roof. All slate roofs. Projecting stone stack modern to left with offset, two-flue brick stack with oversailing courses to right. Three gable dormers to left of centre with bargeboards, pendants and sixteen-pane sashes. Other windows are three-light sashes except for plain sash to centre first floor and bay window under flat lead roof to ground floor left. Modern conservatory porch under slate roof, half-glazed wide front door. Right-hand range has modern casement windows and glazed door.  

Interior
Retains good turned baluster staircase from early C19. Other good woodwork detailing to windows and doors. Chamfered ground floor beams to rooms with high ceilings  

Reason for designation
A well-preserved example of a later vernacular farmhouse which has been adapted architecturally whilst retaining its historic character  

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