Upper Bryn is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 18 July 1949. Regional house.
Upper Bryn
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 18 July 1949
- Type
- Regional house
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Upper Bryn is a 17th-century, three-unit house with a lobby entry and a central chimney, featuring a later 18th-century wing to the south that creates an overall L shape. The building is two storeys high and constructed with a box frame and square panels. The older section has weatherboarding and a brick west wall with a stepped projecting brick stack, topped by a steeply pitched old slate roof.
A gabled storeyed porch jetties out to the attic and first floor. The eastern end serves as the parlour, which has a jettied attic supported by brackets. The collar beam features the initials "RB 1660" and the phrase "NOT WE FROM KINGS BUT KINGS FROM US" in restored lettering on the bressumer. There is a decorative panel with a heraldic crest, possibly of a phoenix, although the head is missing. The house has three-light casement windows on both the first and ground floors, with "Jacobean" style carved figures flanking the first-floor window. A corrugated iron lean-to is attached along the rear wall.
The later wing is also box-framed with square panels, but the timbers on the eastern front have been re-faced, and the rear elevation has been replaced with brick. It has steep slate roofs and a modern brick stack. The first floor features two three-light casement windows, while the ground floor has a single similar window and a two-light window to the left. A modern porch connects the later wing to the parlour of the earlier building.
The earlier house was in a derelict condition and unoccupied at the time of inspection. Inside, the original layout included twin service rooms to the west with an adjoining hall. It features twin axial stop-chamfered beams and a moulded doorhead. The parlour, which is beyond the chimney, remains in use as part of the later wing and also has twin axial beams. The later wing includes axial stop-chamfered ceiling beams, an 18th-century twelve-panelled door to the parlour, and an 18th-century turned baluster stair. Later 19th-century spandrels have been added to the doorcases.
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