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
9198
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
15/02/1993
Date of Amendment
15/02/1993
Name of Property
Trewern
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Old Radnor
Town
Locality
Weythel
Easting
322136
Northing
257212
Street Side
Location
Large brick-fronted farmhouse in upland setting about 1.5km W of Weythel.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Exterior
c1700, 2 storeys with C19 lower service wing to rear. Red brick front with platt band on rubble plinth. Random bonding, thin, poorly-fired bricks, some of the earliest surviving in Radnorshire. Rubble rear elevations, rendered to left gable end. Two projecting brick end stacks with panelled uppers. Hipped slate roof, boxed eaves. Five-window front, new eight-pane tall sashes with horns under yellow brick cambered lintels. Central front door of tall thin panels with transom lights and plain cambered overlight. C19 trelliswork porch on stone plinth with pierced bargeboards. Rear windows all modern under brick arches, some older blocked openings visible.
Interior
Four-panel doors, dog-leg stairs with plain stick balusters, chamfered newel, open string with template brackets, panelled underside to stairs and steps down to cellar. Large open fireplace to left-hand room with chamfered timber lintel and dressed stone jambs. Exposed beam with narrow chamfer.
Reason for designation
Large-scale farmhouse with an early brick facade of rare quality for rural Radnorshire.
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