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
9318
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
11/08/1993
Date of Amendment
11/08/1993
Name of Property
Upper Graig (Old House)
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Penybont
Town
Locality
Llandegley Rocks
Easting
312573
Northing
261795
Street Side
Location
Lies about 1.6km (1 mile) SW of Llandegley village under Llandegley Rocks, set into the slope of a hill.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Circa 1725.
Exterior
Two storeys, rubble stone, slate roof, two end stacks, left-hand end in brick, right-hand end with original squared rubble stack. [New extension of 1988 on site of former attached barn/byre.] Three-window range, boarded floor to left of centre. All windows modern timber casements, upper windows set in portion of raised walling.
Interior
Much original detail survives including fine plank and muntin screen dividing the main room from the central staircase hall. The room on the far side of the hall was previously subdivided to give a rear dairy. Studwork wall partitions, modern open stairs on site of original. Main room has large open fireplace with massive chamfered and stopped timber lintel, partially infilled with inset range, brick-lined bread oven in corner. Scroll-stopped beams and exposed joists, large flagstones throughout. The screen is chamfered on the main room side with straight-cut stops. Evidence for former bench fixings and also a door at the N end. The S end doorway survives and has beaded architraving.
Reason for designation
Listed as one of a group of small but distinctive C18 vernacular houses on the lower slopes of Llandegley Rocks, of which Graig, Little Graig and Upper Graig retain most character.
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