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
9132
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
15/02/1993  
Date of Amendment
15/02/1993  
Name of Property
The Harp Inn  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Powys  
Community
Old Radnor  
Town
 
Locality
 
Easting
325041  
Northing
259128  
Street Side
 
Location
Sited below Old Radnor Hill and 200m NE of St Stephen's Church.  

Description


Broad Class
Commercial  
Period
 

History
C16/17. Former cross-passage timber-framed house, walls rebuilt in rubble stone, former byre/barn end rebuilt and converted to domestic use by the Landmark Trust in 1971.  

Exterior
Two storeys, attic and cellar, rear extensions under catslide roofs with modern flat-roofed dormers. Stone tile roof, ridge stack and offset end stack in modern brick. Boarded door to front left. C19 cross-pattern chamfered-frame windows with metal casements to the original portion.  

Interior
Large panel timber-framing exposed on rear wall and to partition wall to right of former cross-passage. Latter partition mainly cut through on ground floor but one chamfered and stopped door-frame survives. Ground floor left-hand end room has scroll-stopped beams and large rubble-lined fireplace with brick bread oven. Stone flagged floors throughout. Exposed beam with deep chamfer and step stop on first floor.  

Reason for designation
Group value in fine landscape setting with Parish Church.  

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