Lower House is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 13 December 1951. House.

Lower House

WRENN ID
steep-thatch-shade
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Country
Wales
Date first listed
13 December 1951
Type
House
Source
Cadw listing

Description

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.

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.

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