History

1835 house built for Frances and Jane Walters, daughters of Abel Walters of Beddgeraint, Penbryn. Probably altered after 1881. The sisters left the house after an incident in the Rebecca Riots, 1843, and Jane Walters did not return until the 1860s. She built Watchtower Calvinistic Methodist Chapel, now house, in the grounds in 1865 and was buried there in 1881.

Exterior

Rubble stone, formerly stuccoed, probably originally roughcast, with slate hipped roof, flat eaves and three brick side-wall stacks, originally stone. Two-storey, three-window W entrance front, slightly off-centre with unaligned stack. Two long arched windows each side with small-paned glazing, one to left crossed by stair, the one to right, renewed in C20, a dummy. Above, but not aligned are two ovals, infilled in red brick, but possibly formerly also dummy windows. Centre arched doorway with fanlight, in C20 gabled porch. Arched window above. Two-window S side with two later C19 bays to ground floor and two hornless 12-pane sashes above. Rear E has two windows above, one and narrow French window below. Wall-face stack. N side has wall-face stack and NE hipped service range with rear kitchen stack. Casement windows to W front and N end dairy lean-to.

Interior

Oddly planned interior with stair-hall to left, centre passage and two main rooms to S. Simple early C19 cornices, SW room cornice probably later with rose and leaf trail. SE room entry skewed to give depth for sideboard recess in N wall, arched narrow French window on E wall. Six-panel doors generally. Cellar under S side. Later C19 dog-leg stair to skewed passage, allowing room for irregular-shaped centre front dressing room. Early C19 fireplaces and cornices in main S rooms. Shutters. Large timber-lintel fireplace in service wing

Reasons for Listing

Included as small late Georgian country house with unusual facade.

External Links

• Cadwr Listing
• Wikidata Q29494327

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5