Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
17188
Building Number
Grade
II*
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
18/01/1996
Date of Amendment
18/01/1996
Name of Property
Boughrood Cottage
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Glasbury
Town
Locality
Boughrood
Easting
312706
Northing
239360
Street Side
Location
Located 100m to the NW of Boughrood church across a small tributary of the River Wye, within its own grounds, and with its farmyard, buildings and mill to the N.
Description
Broad Class
Agriculture and Subsistence
Period
History
A large cruck-built farmhouse of the C16 or earlier, the N end of which was converted and raised to 2 storeys with attic in a high-quality early C17 scheme of remodelling.
Exterior
The Cottage has the front door opposite the stack, 12-paned sashes and a 4-light gabled dormer. Inscriptions on jamb stones reading WV (17)79 and WIL PHILLIPS.
Interior
The Cottage has a blocked fireplace and cruck truss on the inner wall of the end sitting room. Gable stack with a stone winding stair at one side, and an oven at the other. Roof interior is heavily smoke blackened, and has a plastered division on wide split laths woven between staves.
Reason for designation
Listed Grade II* on account of the evidence of sub-medieval construction and for the unusually high quality of the C17 work retained internally.
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