Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
17213
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
18/01/1996
Date of Amendment
18/01/1996
Name of Property
Vicarage House
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Glasbury
Town
Locality
Llowes
Easting
319137
Northing
241635
Street Side
W
Location
Located on rising ground facing S, with a driveway leading down to the junction of the Moity Road with the realigned A.438.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
The new vicarage to replace the medieval building was built c.1860-70 by the Revd. Thomas Williams, vicar 1859 - 1914, and a friend of the Revd Francis Kilvert, curate at the adjoining village of Clyro, who visited him here on various occasions.
Exterior
Dressed local ashlar sandstone with margin-draughted stone dressings to S facade, rubble stone to other sides. Hipped slate roof. Two storeys and cellar, 3 bays, 'L'-plan, comprising a central stair hall, and flanking reception rooms, with dining room in a wing behind the right bay, extended by kitchen in slightly lower roofed bay. Tuscan portico with reeded pulvinated architrave, over a 5-panelled door set deep within panelled reveals. Sixteen-paned sash windows, with pronounced label mouldings over.
Interior
Not accessible at time of inspection, (August 1995). Windows have panelled shutters in splayed reveals.
Reason for designation
Included as a well preserved parsonage house of the mid Victorian period, having historic associations with the diarist, Francis Kilvert.
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