Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
7956
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
16/04/1982
Date of Amendment
16/12/2005
Name of Property
No. 1 Cross Houses
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Montgomery
Town
Montgomery
Locality
Easting
322300
Northing
296773
Street Side
Location
Situated on left end of row of cottages, on corner of Pool Road.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
End cottage of a row of four probably of C17 or C18 date, timber framed. No 1 is larger and may be earlier though cased in brick, probably in later C18. Square timber framing exposed in the E gable. The row is marked on 1833 map as owned by C.G. Humphreys of Bank House, No 1 occupied in 1839 by Mary Lewis. Shown on OS map of 1975 as Cross Lanes. Old photographs show No 1 with cross-windows each side of the door which has a gabled hood.
Exterior
End terrace house, painted brick with dentilled brick eaves and steep slate roof hipped to SW, gabled to E and with tall red brick stack to rear NW gable. One storey and attic, double-fronted with centre doorway between two window with cambered brick heads and modern glazing. Doorway had a gabled hood on brackets above old door frame with modern door with glazed panels, now within a late C20 glazed porch. Two small dormer windows on eaves with bargeboards and modern paired casements. Windowless brick W end wall. Modern addition to rear. E gable, above No 2 has exposed timber framing in square panels.
Interior
Interior not inspected.
Reason for designation
Included as a small Georgian brick house with significant evidence of earlier timber-framed origins.
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