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Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
9163
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
13/12/1951
Date of Amendment
15/02/1993
Name of Property
Lower House
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Old Radnor
Town
Locality
Evenjob
Easting
326390
Northing
262319
Street Side
Location
Set back to SE of T-junction on E side of village centre.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
c1600. Present house originally formed the parlour crosswing to an earlier house running to the southwest, long since demolished. Extensively restored and rear extensions built in 1970's after fire in 1962.
Exterior
Two storeys, part timber-framed, part rubble with tile roof, flat roofs over rendered blockwork rear additions. Rebuilt stone end stack to right. Front elevation has close-set framing and retains jetty with moulded bressummer, ornate carved brackets and shafted wall-posts. Wide ogee-headed doorframe partially enclosed by rubble end wall. Reconstructed ovolo-moulded mullion windows in original framing positions.
Interior
Former single ground-floor room now sub-divided. Impressive arrangement of good quality deep chamfered beams with diagonally-cut stops, the main beam carried on projecting chamfered wall-posts, counter-changed joists. Inserted stack with chamfered, dressed stone jambs and timber lintel. Exposed beams on the first-floor, also with counter-changed joists, have scroll stops. This ceiling formerly only extended over half the room giving crog-loft.
Reason for designation
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