Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
17303
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
12/09/1996
Date of Amendment
12/09/1996
Name of Property
Cefn Maenllwyd
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Kerry
Town
Newtown
Locality
Maenllwyd
Easting
315528
Northing
291798
Street Side
Location
The farmhouse lies behind the farm buildings, near the hilltop, at the end of a farm track off the NW side of the road from Kerry to Llanmerewig.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Exterior
Farmhouse of the C17, timber framed, now clad with sheet boarding and having a corrugated asbestos cement roof. Two bays, two storeys with attics, with a large external stone stack serving both bays. Brick outshut to rear. The gable end is twice jettied on cut brackets. Small paned timber windows. Roof has two tiers of purlins. Stack has stepped offsets, and an added brick flue.
Interior
Two unit plan, comprising a large kitchen with side stack, deeply chamfered ceiling beams forming 6 bays, and an inner parlour, sharing an extension of the stack, and two parallel ceiling beams.
Reason for designation
Include as an impressive example of a C17 farmhouse retaining its early character in later vernacular external cladding.
Cadw : Full Report for Listed Buildings [ Records 1 of 1 ]
Export