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
9332
Building Number
Grade
II*
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
25/05/1972
Date of Amendment
26/03/1985
Name of Property
Wegnall Cottage
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Presteigne
Town
Locality
Presteigne
Easting
332352
Northing
263053
Street Side
Location
Close by Hindwell Brook (marking the English border) and reached by an irregular farm track from the Presteigne to Kington road
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Little altered timber-framed L-plan house dating from about 1600, possibly built by Hugh Rodd, brother of Richard Rodd of Hertordshire.
Exterior
2 storeys, rubble footings, close studding, 1st floor jettied with partly moulded jetty-beam on curved brackets. Infilled 1st floor doorway with arched lintol (2-storey porch now removed), main entrance with boarded and studded door. 2 windows wide, cantilevered 6-light oriels planted on bracket supports under cill beams, leaded lights. One 3-light window flush-set to left.
Currugated-iron roofs, massive rubble stack to right gable with 4 diagonal stems, smaller stack to left side. Lean-to rubble extensions to left and right ends.
Rear elevations with similar detailing, rear wing jettied over ground floor with corner brackets under beam (upper floors temporarily covered).
Interior
Internal plan-form has hall and kitchen on the main front separated by an entrance passage, and a parlour in the rear wing with a great chamber over. All the main rooms were heated by fireplaces of dressed stone, internal square-framed partition walls with wattle and daub infill, stop-chamfered joists, wooden bressumers, stairs in fireplace gable end etc.
Reason for designation
In progress of restortion from use as a farm store.
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