Yr Hen Bersondy (also known as The Old Rectory) is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 17 January 1963. Terrace.

Yr Hen Bersondy (also known as The Old Rectory)

WRENN ID
stony-merlon-cedar
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Brecon Beacons National Park
Country
Wales
Date first listed
17 January 1963
Type
Terrace
Source
Cadw listing

Description

Medium sized village house. L-shaped plan comprising main house with central entrance with staircase parallel to frontage and long wing to E part living accommodation and part barn. Main house is battered. Of stone rubble faced with roughcast with Welsh slate roof and rendered long and narrow end stacks, tall stone lateral stack to side wing. Entrance frontage has 3 window range of 6/6 pane sashes with narrow glazing bars, 2 similar on ground floor though not symmetrically spaced as a result of staircase plan. Central single storey flat roofed porch with Gothick windows either side of central doorway which has fluted pilasters and rosettes and margin glazed door. Garden elevation to main house has hipped roof dormers with 9/9 pane casements; tripartite sashes to sides (altered right) and 6/6 pane sash to centre, all horned to first floor; ground floor has large full length 6/6 pane horned sash windows with narrow glazing bars to left and right, centre left a further smaller 6/6 pane sash and central margin glazed door, under a verandah with replaced glazing supported on cast iron columns on stone plinths; battered wall; gable end has hoods to side windows. To right the 2 bay hipped roof wing breaks forward with a different roof pitch, altered tripartite windows to first floor and a single 3/3 pane sash window to ground floor. Side elevation has 2 hipped roof half dormers, gabled porch; extended doors and ventilation slits to former barn and triangular ventilator to gable end. Front stone boundary wall with flat coping.

No access to interior of house but it is reported to retain many early C19 details including 6 panelled doors with moulded surrounds, panelled reveals and shutters; also some cross beams and joists to early part in corner of L-shaped range, which is said to contain a well. Barn interior has pegged collar and tie trusses and 3 rows of trenched purlins.

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