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Latitude: 52.4512 / 52°27'4"N
Longitude: -3.5402 / 3°32'24"W
OS Eastings: 295429
OS Northings: 284808
OS Grid: SN954848
Mapcode National: GBR 9H.LM1N
Mapcode Global: VH5BX.LN98
Plus Code: 9C4RFF25+FW
Entry Name: Frankwell House
Listing Date: 10 April 1989
Last Amended: 10 April 1989
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 8382
Building Class: Domestic
ID on this website: 300008382
Location: Reached by a short drive that was, prior to 1826, the main road into Llanidloes via the former Long Bridge. Left gable end faces the confluence of the rivers Clywedog and Severn.
County: Powys
Community: Llanidloes
Community: Llanidloes
Built-Up Area: Llanidloes
Traditional County: Montgomeryshire
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Historically the venue for Town Council meetings in early C19.
Mid to late C17 timber-frame origins of lobby-entry plan said to date back to 1668. Alterations in mid C18 and in ealier C19 including conversion into 2 dwellings. Modern renovation. Long 2-storey roughcast front of 2 1 - windows; timber band between 1st and ground floors and painted rubble base with pegged weatherboarding over. Slate roof with wide boarded eaves and large red brick chimney stack oposite the entry. 12-pane sash windows with oak cills and flush frames - C19 glazing in C18 openings. Broad C19 doorcase to right of centre with later gabled hood and cusped bargeboards carried on fluted brackets. Contained within are the twin doorways of Frankwell House and Frankwell Cottage; timber architraves, boarded doors with brasswork.
Cat slide roof to rear. Right gable end has 2 small windows and a further window inserted into a possible bread-oven projection. Asbestos tile hung left gable end and roof to modern lean-to on site of former barn in which a woollen cleaning process was operated. Modern alterations at rear with timber frame exposed at top and bricked recess to right.
The interior of the main house retains oak beams, some feather stop chamfered, and 6-panel doors. The Oak staircase rising from the main room has swept up handrail but the balustrade has been removed. The dining room to left reflects the Georgian alterations with twin-well ceiling and cornicing. The square panelling of the timber-frame is exposed on left end wall. A-frame roof trusses with 2 rounded purlins to each pitch; wattle and daub partitions within attic. There is an inner connecting door with the cottage which retains a cobbled floor, boarded doors and tightly winding narrow staircase.
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