Aberhoyw is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 July 1963. House.
Aberhoyw
- WRENN ID
- bitter-zinc-ebony
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brecon Beacons National Park
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 19 July 1963
- Type
- House
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Aberhoyw is a large two-storey house with attics, featuring a main range that includes a hall on the left and a kitchen on the right. Behind the main structure are a rear wing on the left and a single-storey lean-to on the right. The building is constructed of rubble sandstone painted cream and has an asbestos-slate roof. There is an original stone chimney stack to the left of the center and a smaller 18th-century stack to the right. The gable end of the rear wing has an original 17th-century stack with two diagonally set shafts.
The front of the house has three windows; the left side is rendered and features renewed sash windows that were rebuilt after a fire. On the right side, there are small-pane sash windows with segmental heads, and above the doorway, there is a similar sash window under a timber lintel. The doorway has been narrowed and features a timber lintel and a boarded door. Above the door is a fine stone tablet with a wreath surrounding a shield that bears the Price family coat of arms in relief, engraved with the date 1726. The left gable end has been modernly rebuilt, while the right gable end has a small recently renewed casement in an earlier attic opening and a half-lit boarded door to the right. The rear wing has two 2-light and one 3-light wooden casements in its left side wall, while the openings in the right side wall have been renewed. The gable end of the rear wing features two small attic openings, now glazed but originally with diamond mullions.
Inside, the hall retains its original gable end entry, and the kitchen shows evidence of its former cross-passage. The hall has a fireplace with a chamfered surround, and to the left of this is a semi-circular stone stair that was blocked in the mid-17th century when the rear wing was built but was exposed after the fire in the 1960s. The kitchen is lower than the hall and has a joist-beam ceiling. The rear wing features a full-height stairway to the attic, consisting of short flights of straight steps made of large oak blocks, some of which are renewed while others are charred. Beneath the stairs in the rear wing is the blocked rear door of the former cross-passage, along with stairs leading to the cellar. The doorways throughout the house feature a combination of broach and stepped run-out stops.
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