Y Fro is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 July 1963. House.

Y Fro

WRENN ID
tall-sentry-torch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Brecon Beacons National Park
Country
Wales
Date first listed
19 July 1963
Type
House
Source
Cadw listing

Description

Two-and-a-half storey, 5-window house with battered walls of rubble stone painted white. A stone-tile roof has a stone stack to L of centre with 2 diagonal shafts (1 of which is replaced in brick), a similar added stack to R, and an early C20 brick stack L of centre to the front roof slope. To L of centre is the doorway to the former cross-passage (with inserted French doors), to R of which is a 1960s 4-light insertion and further R a 3-light window to the original parlour with ovolo mullions. In the upper storey are 1960s 3-light casements. To the L of the cross passage doorway is the original byre, which has 1 ground-floor and 2 first-floor windows, and a 3-light window inserted above the doorway, all of the 1960s.

In the R gable end is an inserted doorway with a canopy to R (the frame and door having been moved from the cross-passage doorway early 1960s). The frame has a roll-moulded surround, and the shaped door head has marguerites. The boarded door has 3-pronged strap hinges. To L of the doorway is an inserted 4-light window with diamond mullions and a similar window with hood mould in the 1st floor (both moved from the front of the house). The attic has an inserted mullioned window under a drip stone. The rear has inserted windows and projections L and R. The stairs in the centre has a 3-light window with diamond mullions with a smaller attic light.

The plan form remains largely intact, although the cross passage is now divided. The hall retains a post-and-panel partition (partly repositioned) with a shaped door head. The former parlour window has wooden shutters. The fireplace has a timber lintel with a locker and an inserted oven at the back. Cross beams have cut stops. The fireplace stairs has stone treads to the 1st floor, continuing with oak treads to the attic. The attic stair light has a wooden shutter. The roof has trusses with lapped collars.

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