Lower Cathedine farmhouse and attached farm range to W., Llangors, Powys

Coordinates

Latitude: 51.9194 / 51°55'9"N

Longitude: -3.2468 / 3°14'48"W

OS Eastings: 314351

OS Northings: 225280

OS Grid: SO143252

Mapcode National: GBR YW.P792

Mapcode Global: VH6C7.N0XW

Plus Code: 9C3RWQ93+Q7

Entry Name: Lower Cathedine farmhouse and attached farm range to W.

Listing Date: 21 August 1998

Last Amended: 21 August 1998

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 20316

Building Class: Domestic

ID on this website: 300020316

Location: In the hamlet of Cathedine a little N of the church and backing onto the road to Llangors.

County: Powys

Community: Llangors (Llan-gors)

Community: Llangors

Locality: Cathedine

Traditional County: Brecknockshire

Tagged with: Farmhouse

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History

Probably C17 unit with larger C18 house attached, this altered in C19. Vaughan Poppy attributes rebuilding programme involving house, stables and barn to Thomas Vaughan of Tretower in 1777.

Exterior

Long L shaped range comprising tall C18 range backing onto road attached at right angles to lower C17 house with farm range extending downhill. House is part roughcast part painted stone with Welsh slate roof and end stacks; limewashed stone rubble farm range with part Welsh slate part stone tile part corrugated roofs. Main house of 3 storeys has 3 window range of segmental arched 3/3 pane unhorned sashes with narrow sills to sides and 2/2 to centre; above 2 full dormers with similar square headed windows; ground floor has similar cambered sashes either side of central doorway with gabled porch; no windows to rear roadside elevation. Curved terraced forecourt of stone to main frontage. Earlier unit of single storey and attic has 2 roof dormers and ground floor doorway with 2 replaced sashes. Attached farm range has range of 5 segmental arched doorways with voussoirs and tooled imposts, planked stable doors with wooden latches, sloping dormers to loft above; end range of 2 segmental arched cart bays with loft above.

Interior

Old unit reported as retaining open fireplace and stone stairs beside. Attached farm range with loft has collar trusses and blocked door to house; interior partitions.

Reasons for Listing

Listed together with adjacent barn range as a farmstead of C17/C18 retaining historic character.

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Other nearby listed buildings

II Barn and stable range N of Lower Cathedine farmhouse
Forming the N and W sides of the original farmyard at Cathedine, the house and farm range forming E and S sides, with main barn end on to road.
II Church of St Michael
Stands above the SE bank of Llangorse Lake and just below the main road between Bwlch and Llangors in a steeply sloping churchyard bordered to E by a stone wall with railings and gatepiers.
II Gunter monuments in the churchyard at E end of church of St Michael
Near the SE corner of the church.
II Vaughan monument in the churchyard to S side of church of St Michael
Very near the SE end of the nave.
II Shortreed monument in the churchyard to SW of church of St Michael
Near the SW boundary of the churchyard.
II Treholford
In the hamlet of Cathedine, on rising ground above the main road to E and Cathedine church, and reached by a lane and drive.
II Walled garden at Treholford
On the slope above Treholford E of the house.
II Upper Cathedine
S of the hamlet of Cathedine, just above the main road between Bwlch and Llangors.

British Listed Buildings

History in Structure

Lower Cathedine farmhouse and attached farm range to W.

A Grade II Listed Building in Llangors, Powys