Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
7919
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
11/03/1981
Date of Amendment
24/01/1995
Name of Property
Trewern Farm (North) Farmhouse
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Trewern
Town
Locality
Trewern
Easting
327227
Northing
312425
Street Side
Location
Located in the flood plain of the River Severn, near the line of Offa's Dyke and to the north-east of Trewern Hall.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Early C17.
Exterior
Farmhouse. Timber framed, now encased in white painted brickwork with some rubble stone. Stone cladding on N side of wing carried up in brickwork, probably early C19, and brickwork of gable ends has cogged strings.
Slate roof; old slates of irregular widths on main S elevation. Two storeys, main range of two bays with apparently contemporary cross wing at N end, of 2 bays forming the original parlour end. Outshut on W side of main range now containing utility room. Door on E elevation of wing now converted to window and second window blocked.
Interior
A boarded door in main range opens on to living hall, with lateral fireplace on W side and chamfered and ogee stopped ceiling beams. Kitchen at S end. Timber framed partitions in cross wing, with some surviving wattle and daub infilling, and lateral fireplace in E bay. Roof has heavy principal rafters, collars and double purlins, with angle-set ridge set into apex. Short straight windbraces to main range roof.
Reason for designation
Listed as a farmhouse placed in the C17 to open up the productive lands of the Severn valley floor.
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