Llwyd Mansion

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

SJ 2929 NW OSWESTRY C.P. CROSS STREET (north side)

14/65 Nos. 1 and 3 (Llwyd - Mansion) 10.9.51 GV I

House, with ground floor latterly used as shops, now empty. Mid- to late C15, re-modelled c. 1604 with later additions and alterations.

Timber frame with plaster infill, partly painted in imitation externally, late C19 machine tile roof and 2 yellow brick stacks with moulded capping to back wall. Original plan appears to have comprised 4 units, the ground and first floors of each unit possibly forming a 2-storey shop, with an open solar above; now truncated by at least half a bay to Bailey Street side. 3 storeys and gable-lit attic; framing: close-set vertical posts with middle rail to second floor and irregular square and rectangular panels with long straight tension braces to first floor; ground floor has C20 shop front and brick plinth carried round to left gable end; this and the front are jettied to first and second floors (and also formerly to attic gable), the second-floor moulded bressumer is supported by carved brackets springing from thin wooden posts with cushion capitals, which rise from first-floor bressumer beneath (evidence for appearance of first-floor jetty destroyed by insertion of shop front); irregular fenestration, 3 late C19 casements directly below eaves to second floor, first floor has wooden mullioned and transomed windows with projecting moulded cills to left, right and centre and a restored C15 four-light trefoil-headed window with mouchettes and quatrefoils above between centre and right windows; immediately to left of centre mullioned and transomed window is a small blocked 4-light mullion window, probably also original to building; gable has two 3-light mullioned and transomed windows with projecting moulded cills to first floor and a similar 4-light window above, small fixed-light window with quatrefoil decoration below to attic: all the gable windows were, however, considerably restored and replaced or newly made when this part of the building was truncated in late C19; plaster roundel to left-hand side of second floor on front has double-headed eagle (coat-of-arms of Lloyd family) and the words"LLWYD/1604/MANSION" painted in late C19/C20 lettering.

Interior: interpretation of original lay-out of ground floor difficult owing to presence of C20 mezzanine [due to be removed at time of re-survey (August 1985)]; first floor has boxed-in ceiling beams, upward and downward swinging braces from wall-posts, and dragon beam for jetty above in left-hand bay; more can be seen on second floor: 3 square-panelled cross walls have plastered wattle and daub infill but ceiling is later insertion and this floor was originally open to roof; this is of Queen-strut construction in 5 bays with both open and closed trusses, curved cusped windbraces and downward and upward swinging chamfered curved braces to tie beams from principal rafters and wall-posts respectively. The unusual arrangement of this house, including the possibility that the second bay from right was a smoke bay, deserves further study. Scheduled Ancient Monument, County No. 138, B.O.E. p. 224; Salop County Sites and Monuments Record PRN 1120; Carole Ryan, personal communication.

Listing NGR: SJ2907229622

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This is part of the Series: IOE01/2188 IOE Records taken by Les White; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

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© Mr Les White. Source: Historic England Archive

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