Llwyn-Y-Mapsis Farmhouse

SJ 22 NE 5/196

OSWESTRY RURAL C.P. NANT LANE (east side) Llwyn-y-mapsis Farmhouse

II

Farmhouse, now derelict. Datestone 1726 on left gable end with later additions and alterations. Red brick (random bond) on stepped plinth, slate roof with shaped gable (altered in C19) to left and raised verges to right. One storey and attic, continuous brick floor band to front and gable end; original segmental-headed window openings (casements now missing), one to left and one to right of door to left of centre, which has flat- roofed trellised porch; similar window to right of blocked segmental- headed doorway to right of centre, roughly central gabled eaves dormer, prominent axial red brick ridge stack to right of centre and C19 red brick end stack to left. Full-length brick outshut to rear in ruinous condition at time of re-survey (July 1985). Interior: chamfered spine beam with ogee stops and heavy joists to centre and left ground-floor rooms, plain chamfered beam and joists to right ground-floor room; large inglenook fireplaces with chamfered wooden lintels and C19 cast-iron ranges beneath ridge stack; oak winder staircase to right of fireplace in centre room and timber framed cross wall between centre and left rooms; plank and muntin doors with pointed strap hinges to right gable end on ground floor and to right-hand bedroom; single-purlin roof in 3 bays had trusses obscured by plaster at time of re-survey (July 1985).

Listing NGR: SJ2829927292