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
9275
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
17/06/1993
Date of Amendment
17/06/1993
Name of Property
Part of L-Plan Range at Lower House Farm
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Llanfihangel Rhydithon
Town
Locality
Easting
315087
Northing
266793
Street Side
N
Location
Situated downhill in the centre of Llanfihangel Rhydithon, 100m north-west of the main road and parish church. Courtyard range of farmhouse and outbuildings, unoccupied and used as farm store for many years.
Description
Broad Class
Agriculture and Subsistence
Period
History
Exterior
C15 two-unit, cruck-framed former house with two further bays at south-east end of C17/18 date. Refronting and back-kitchen wing at north-west end C19. Rubble stone in regular coursed blocks with plinth, boxed eaves, slate roof, rubble end stack to left, brick stack to rear right. Steps up to central door under cambered voussoir lintel, boarded door in heavy frame. Regular arrangement of windows with voussoir lintels and brick cills, mainly boarded up. The first-floor windows very narrow and set under the eaves. The left-hand end bay has weatherboarded upper floor and large double doors below.
Barn/Cowhouse range adjoining at right angles to former house: Only partial inspection of barn end possible. Appears to be C17 in origin but with some replacement trusses and wall-framing of C18 and C19 date. External elevations mainly weatherboarded under slate roof, ground-floor of cowhouse in rubble stone. Boarded doors and loft shutters.
Interior
Substantial survival of original cruck trusses and partition walls. The latter of large horizontal timber-frame panels with wattle and woven lath infil. Left-hand room has large blocked fireplace with ovolo moulded lintel, axial beam with deep chamfer and step stop, exposed joists.
Central room has chamfered axial beam, exposed joists and large salting slab on brick piers. Right-hand room has chamfered axial beam with scroll stops, small brick-lined C19 corner fireplace. Flag-floors. Later roof raised above cruck trusses.
Reason for designation
Good surviving vernacular farm grouping with signficant late medieval fabric to house.
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