Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
8765
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
18/09/1960
Date of Amendment
09/03/1995
Name of Property
Cwm Farmhouse
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Painscastle
Town
Locality
Llandewi Fach
Easting
314805
Northing
245179
Street Side
Location
Remote location against hillside about 2 miles SW of Painscastle. Originally the vicarage to Llandewi Fach Church (R Haslam).
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Exterior
Late C17 or early C18. L-plan. Two storeys, rubble stone, slate roof, rubble stacks to each gable end. Central door under rough iron canopy. Cross-windows largely replacements of varying sizes, the ground floor ones under flat voussoir lintels. To the rear is a mullion and transom window lighting the stairs.
Interior
Large central stairs hall, C18 stairs, deep moulded handrail, squared newels with half balusters, other balusters missing. Doors have raised and fielded panels with H-hinges and ogee-moulded architraving. Fireplace surround in rear parlour wing has rich bolection mouldings and overmantel of framed panel and moulded cornice. Similar fire surround in room above. Upper room to right has hob grate. Ground floor room to left retains part of a large C18 built-in dresser along two walls.
Reason for designation
Included as a good example of c1700 vicarage or small gentry house in the region.
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