Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
18491
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
13/06/1997
Date of Amendment
13/06/1997
Name of Property
Moydog-fach
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Castle Caereinion
Town
Castle Caereinion
Locality
Moydog
Easting
317140
Northing
308452
Street Side
N
Location
Located on a platform site on the S facing slope of Y Figyn, and reached by a long farm road from the Welshpool to Llanfair Caereinion road through Frochas.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
A gable lobby entry plan house with an enlarged service end.
Exterior
The building is a variation of a standard C17 plan, with living hall with lobby entry and gable stack. Rubble, with slate roof. Paned windows, c.1940, in earlier openings, and timber boarded door. Three small gabled dormers light the semi-attic floor. Brick stack. To the rear, an added stone lean-to storeroom, now roofless.
Interior
The living room has a large gable fireplace with an iron range and side oven. Two parallel chamfered spine beams with ogee stops. Post and panel partition to inner rooms in the E end bay, divided with timber framed partitioning, comprising a long room at the front, with a door to a rear lobby giving access to a smaller end room and to a newel stair to the first floor. Tie and collar beam roof trusses with queen struts.
Reason for designation
Included as a well preserved C17 building with an unusual arrangement of service rooms.
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