Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Llanfair Guest House
Builth, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Builth, Powys, designated on 16 September 1991.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 16 September 1991
- Community
- Builth
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.14962, -3.40422
- Cadw reference
- 7442
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1637 · Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 196 Builth (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
On prominent corner site overlooking The Groe.
History
Small villa c. 1820, extended and altered c. 1874 and later.
Exterior
Slate roof, red brick chimney. Grey, coursed flat rubble with hammer dressed quoins, dressings, and voussoir lintels.
Two storeys. Shallow-pitched hipped roof with widely overhanging boarded eaves. Three window entrance front faces E. Sixteen pane sash windows, horned. Central entrance door with classical Doric style porch with columns. Side elevation facing N, 3 windows broad. At ground floor level end windows have added splayed bays in painted stone each with 3 round headed arches and pairs of gothic style columns with ringed shafts and foliage capitals. Above cornice, cast iron rails to balconies (which formerly had canopies at eaves level). Balcony rails include coats of arms with lions supporting shield with sheaf of corn and bird. End windows at first floor altered to form French door access to balconies. Central window 16 pane sash. Below this, on ground floor, smaller sash window. South wall of main block has inserted first floor broad window with blue brick dressings.
At rear, lower two-storey service range. Low pitched hipped roof, overhanging eaves. Slightly larger, browner, flat rubble than main block. Fenestration somewhat altered with dressings in blue brick. Between main block and service block, two-storey flat roofed infill, rendered.
Sitting room and dining room (the rooms with bay windows) retain original details in late Georgian style, including fireplaces and decorated beams.
Datestone on low garden wall adjacent to bay windows with inscription
'J Vaughan 1874'.
Nearby in the register
- Alpha Presbyterian ChurchReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Parish church of St MaryReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- War MemorialCommemorativeunder 1 mi
- Post OfficeCommunicationsunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.