Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
No 1 Church Row
Maescar, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 8 November 1985
- Locality
- Defynnog
- Town
- Brecon
- Community
- Maescar
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.94000, -3.56442
- Cadw reference
- 7482
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Situated at right end of terrace of eight houses backing onto the churchyard in Defynnog village.
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.
Reason for designation
Included for its special architectural interest as one of a distinctive terrace of Tudor style estate cottages.
Nearby in the register
- No 2 Church RowDomesticunder 1 mi
- The Forge, No 3 Church RowDomesticunder 1 mi
- Clifford Place, No 4 Church RowDomesticunder 1 mi
- No 5 Church RowDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.