Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
15646
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
24/01/1995
Date of Amendment
24/01/1995
Name of Property
Middle Heldre Farmhouse
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Trewern
Town
Locality
Trewern
Easting
328032
Northing
310182
Street Side
Location
Situated on the northern side of Heldre Hill approximately 1.5km south of Trewern village.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Exterior
C16 or early C17 2-storey and attic timber framed farmhouse with rendered front and a slate roof. Plan consists of a short wide hall block with a 2-bay cross wing. Two storey porch opposite main 4-flue stack, originally open, now containing a stair-hall. Heavy framing, the cross wing has a jettied gable.
Interior
Deeply chamfered beams with check and scoop stops, the hall originally underdrawn with plaster, but chamfered and stopped joists to the cross wing, the chamfer returning along the perimeter wall bressumer. Jowled posts. Many original plank doors. Central first floor wing has bar stopped chamfers. Roof has double tier of purlins over the hall range and single tier with straight windbraces to the wing. Chamber over porch. Cellar under S bay of cross wing.
Reason for designation
Listed as a good and largely complete example of a late C16-C17 house, apparently of one build.
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