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No 1 Church Row

A Grade II Listed Building in Maescar (Maes-car), Powys

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.94 / 51°56'24"N

Longitude: -3.5644 / 3°33'51"W

OS Eastings: 292555

OS Northings: 227989

OS Grid: SN925279

Mapcode National: GBR YG.MSM2

Mapcode Global: VH5FF.5HHN

Plus Code: 9C3RWCRP+26

Entry Name: No 1 Church Row

Listing Date: 8 November 1985

Last Amended: 28 October 2005

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 7482

Building Class: Domestic

ID on this website: 300007482

Location: Situated at right end of terrace of eight houses backing onto the churchyard in Defynnog village.

County: Powys

Town: Brecon

Community: Maescar (Maes-car)

Community: Maescar

Locality: Defynnog

Traditional County: Brecknockshire

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History

End house of a terrace of eight, built c. 1840 in Tudor style, presumably for one of the gentry estates, but there are buildings marked on the site on a map of 1829. The houses are similar to those in Bull Terrace nearby. No 1 is a mirrored pair with No 2.

Exterior

End terrace house, rubble stone with slate deep-eaved roof and red brick end chimneys. Roof has scallopped eaves board, chimneys have renewed red brick diagonally set shafts, pair of shafts each end, the left ones in block of four with chimneys of No 2. Two-storey, three-window range of cross-windows with deep chamfered jambs, stone sills and centre boarded door segmental-pointed chamfered doorway. Windows to ground floor have sandstone hoodmoulds over timber lintels, hoodmould of left window carried also over right window of No 2.
Rear has basement with cut stone voussoirs to two cambered heads, two large windows to ground floor with red-brick cambered heads and two windows under eaves. windows are imitation sashes in uPVC, boarded door to basement left opening.

Interior

Interior not inspected.

Reasons for Listing

Included for its special architectural interest as one of a distinctive terrace of Tudor style estate cottages.

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