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Latitude: 51.9068 / 51°54'24"N
Longitude: -3.2809 / 3°16'51"W
OS Eastings: 311979
OS Northings: 223912
OS Grid: SO119239
Mapcode National: GBR YT.Q4TH
Mapcode Global: VH6C7.2BWM
Plus Code: 9C3RWP49+PJ
Entry Name: The Old Rectory
Listing Date: 17 December 1998
Last Amended: 17 December 1998
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 21162
Building Class: Domestic
ID on this website: 300021162
Location: By the main road between Brecon and Abergavenny, NW of Llansantffraed church, on the banks of the River Usk.
County: Powys
Community: Talybont-on-Usk (Tal-y-bont ar Wysg)
Community: Talybont-on-Usk
Locality: Llansantffraed
Traditional County: Brecknockshire
Tagged with: Clergy house
Probably late C18, reputedly as a hunting lodge for Buckland estate and damaged by fire, with large wing added S, smaller N added and further remodelling in C19 when it became the Rectory for Llansantffraed church; large dining room/conservatory added 1990s; currently used as a guest house.
A medium sized country house. Plan of central 3 bay older unit with later single bay cross wings projecting each side, a single storey porch bay spanning the area between the bays at front. Because of the sloping ground the older unit is 3 storeys high to rear, 2 to front. Built of mostly coursed stone rubble, some rockfaced, some snecked, rendered to S, with Welsh slate hipped roofs with overhanging eaves and boarded soffits; narrow long rendered chimneys. Road frontage has central pointed arched porch bay entrance to later glazed lobby; 3 small 4-light canted bay windows under eaves to first floor. Hipped roofed wings to sides each have a 2/2 pane sash window at first floor level. To river frontage the higher right wing has a shallow full height bay with a 2/2 pane sash to first floor and shallow ground floor 5-light cross-framed bay window with pitched roof; bay left has similar sashes to each floor. Stepped back to centre the older range has to top floor a central round arched multipane staircase window, to right a small 4 pane window under the eaves, altered to left; first floor has 2 windows, a 6/6 pane casement to right, all with shallow stone sills; altered openings to ground floor behind the conservatory. Attached to left by a wall with cambered arched doorway is the former coachouse converted to accommodation; extending further N and S across frontage a garden wall.
Interior retains plan of the older central unit with rooms either side of central staircase but little detail; stepped down to left the former drawing room of the Rectory; ground floor rear kitchen retains a single lightly chamfered cross beam.
Included for the special historic interest of this prominent and largely C18/C19 house.
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