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Trewern Hall or Trewern Farmhouse is a country house in
The earliest depiction of Trewern Hall is a print of the house by Thomas Edward Pryce, who visited the house in December 1883. In his description of the house he notes that the porch was "badly mutilated" and that inside and all decorative features had been removed. The date 1610 and the initials R F also occur on a tie beam in the plainer kitchen wing to the east.
The front of the house is nearly symmetrical with two outer
*Trewern Hall ''Archives Wales'
*Details of Trewern Hall on CPAT Archwili
Country houses in Powys Grade II* listed buildings in Powys Timber-framed houses in Wales Buildings and structures in Powys
Montgomeryshire
Montgomeryshire, also known as ''Maldwyn'' ( cy, Sir Drefaldwyn meaning "the Shire of Baldwin's town"), is one of thirteen historic counties of Wales, historic counties and a former administrative county of Wales. It is named after its county tow ...
, Wales, close to the Shropshire
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border. It is on a spur in the floodplain
A floodplain or flood plain or bottomlands is an area of land adjacent to a river which stretches from the banks of its channel to the base of the enclosing valley walls, and which experiences flooding during periods of high discharge.Goudi ...
of the River Severn
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, in the Trewern
Trewern is a small village, community and electoral ward in Montgomeryshire, Powys, Wales. The community includes the villages of Buttington and Middletown, situated 4.5 miles (7 km) northeast of Welshpool, 14.5 miles (23.5 km) west o ...
community area of what is now Powys
Powys (; ) is a Local government in Wales#Principal areas, county and Preserved counties of Wales, preserved county in Wales. It is named after the Kingdom of Powys which was a Welsh succession of states, successor state, petty kingdom and princi ...
, to the north of the A458 road from Shrewsbury
Shrewsbury ( , also ) is a market town, civil parish, and the county town of Shropshire, England, on the River Severn, north-west of London; at the 2021 census, it had a population of 76,782. The town's name can be pronounced as either 'Sh ...
to Welshpool
Welshpool ( cy, Y Trallwng) is a market town and community in Powys, Wales, historically in the county of Montgomeryshire. The town is from the Wales–England border and low-lying on the River Severn; its Welsh language name ''Y Trallwng'' m ...
. It is a fine example of a Severn valley half-timbered
Timber framing (german: Holzfachwerk) and "post-and-beam" construction are traditional methods of building with heavy timbers, creating structures using squared-off and carefully fitted and joined timbers with joints secured by large wooden ...
house. The Grade II* listed hall was occupied by the Lloyd, Francis and Whittaker families. In 1985–86 (SW end) and 1993–94 (NE end) it was extensively restored with some remodelling by the architect M. J. Garner for Murray Ll. Chapman.
Architecture
The earliest depiction of Trewern Hall is a print of the house by Thomas Edward Pryce, who visited the house in December 1883. In his description of the house he notes that the porch was "badly mutilated" and that inside and all decorative features had been removed. The date 1610 and the initials R F also occur on a tie beam in the plainer kitchen wing to the east.
The front of the house is nearly symmetrical with two outer gable
A gable is the generally triangular portion of a wall between the edges of intersecting roof pitches. The shape of the gable and how it is detailed depends on the structural system used, which reflects climate, material availability, and aesth ...
s with a hall
In architecture, a hall is a relatively large space enclosed by a roof and walls. In the Iron Age and early Middle Ages in northern Europe, a mead hall was where a lord and his retainers ate and also slept. Later in the Middle Ages, the gr ...
between, the latter flanked by two-storeyed gabled wings. To the right is a porch with a lobby entrance to the hall and access to the kitchen wing. The main hall of the house had small square windows divided by moulded mullions
A mullion is a vertical element that forms a division between units of a window or screen, or is used decoratively. It is also often used as a division between double doors. When dividing adjacent window units its primary purpose is a rigid supp ...
at a high level in the room to an oriel window
An oriel window is a form of bay window which protrudes from the main wall of a building but does not reach to the ground. Supported by corbels, bracket (architecture), brackets, or similar cantilevers, an oriel window is most commonly found pro ...
. In the exterior, the 17th-century timber framing
Timber framing (german: Holzfachwerk) and "post-and-beam" construction are traditional methods of building with heavy timbers, creating structures using squared-off and carefully fitted and joined timbers with joints secured by large wooden ...
consists of two upper courses of decorative quadrants, and a herringbone pattern
The herringbone pattern is an arrangement of rectangles used for floor tilings and road pavement, so named for a fancied resemblance to the bones of a fish such as a herring.
The blocks can be rectangles or parallelograms. The block edge length ...
. The house is also jettied on three sides on corbels, carved with figures and heads on the front.Scourfield R. and Haslam R. (2013), ''The Buildings of Wales: Powys; Montgomeryshire, Radnorshire and Breconshire'', Yale University Press.
Literature
*Chapman, M. Ll. (1988), ''Trewern Hall, its owners and occupiers'' Montgomery Collections : 76 : 31–106. (with reconstructed plan of 1610 and 1910). *Chapman, M. Ll. (2008), ''The Family of Roger Francis of Trewern Hall'', The Montgomeryshire Collections : 96 : 3–59 *Pryce, T. E. (1884), ''Half timber houses of Montgomeryshire'', The Montgomeryshire Collections : 17 : 149-64. *Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales (1911), ''Inventory of the Ancient Monuments in Wales and Monmouth I – County of Montgomery''. *Scourfield R. and Haslam R. (2013), ''The Buildings of Wales: Powys; Montgomeryshire, Radnorshire and Breconshire'', Yale University Press. pp. 262–3. *Smith P. (1988, 2nd ed.), ''Houses of the Welsh Countryside'', H.M.S.O.See also
Other Montgomeryshire timber-framed houses: * Great Cefnyberen *Ty Mawr, Castle Caereinion
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* Cilthriew, Kerry
*Maesmawr Hall
Maesmawr Hall is a historic timber-framed house, situated to the southeast of Caersws, in the Historic counties of Wales, historic county of Montgomeryshire, which now forms part of Powys in Wales. It is currently run as a hotel.
A long avenue ...
, Llandinam
* Glas Hirfryn, Llansilin
*Lymore, Montgomery
Lymore, or Lymore House or Lodge was demolished in 1931. It stood in Lymore Park, one mile ESE of Montgomery, Powys, Wales. The house was a large half-timbered house built by Edward Herbert, 3rd Baron Herbert of Chirbury, c. 1675, to replace th ...
References
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*Details on British Listed Building*Trewern Hall ''Archives Wales'
*Details of Trewern Hall on CPAT Archwili
Country houses in Powys Grade II* listed buildings in Powys Timber-framed houses in Wales Buildings and structures in Powys