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Glas Hirfryn

Glas Hirfryn
Glas Hirfryn, Llansilin 01.JPG
Glas Hirfryn.Under Restoration, September 2014
Location Glas Hirfryn, Llansilin, Montgomeryshire, Wales
Coordinates 52°51′29″N 3°15′12″W / 52.857975°N 3.253468°W / 52.857975; -3.253468Coordinates: 52°51′29″N 3°15′12″W / 52.857975°N 3.253468°W / 52.857975; -3.253468
OS grid reference SO 315706329681
Built c.1559 AD for Morus ap Dafydd of Glas-hirfryn
Restored 2012–2014
Architectural style(s) Timber framed Storied and jettied hall house
Listed Building – Grade II
Designated 1 April 1966
Reference no. Cadw 646
Glas Hirfryn is located in Powys
Glas Hirfryn
Location in Montgomeryshire

Glas Hirfryn is a farm In Cwmdu, at east side of the road through the valley of the Lleiriog on the southern side of the Berwyn Mountains. It is in the community of Llansilin, which was formerly in Denbighshire, but since 1996 has been in the Montgomeryshire part of Powys. The timber-framed farmhouse, which stands within a group of farm buildings was abandoned in the mid-20th century, at which time it was listed as Grade II. The house has now been dated by dendrochronology to about 1559 AD or shortly afterwards.

By 2002 the building had largely collapsed, but since 2012 a restoration programme has been started under the supervision of architect Graham Moss and drawing on the expertise of the Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust (CPAT). The restoration work has been undertaken by Manor Joinery of Minsterley, Shropshire.

The house represents a transitional phase in the development of the timber-framed houses in area from the cruck framed hall houses (such as Ty Draw at Llanarmon Mynydd Mawr and [aisled]-hall houses at Pen-y-Bryn, Llansilin and Hafod, Llansilin and Hen Blas in Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant, to Renaissance and post-Medieval types. Glas Hirfryn is one of the first houses to be storied, rather than the hall being open to the roof. It is also of interest because it has a lateral stone chimney stack, set outside on the north side of the building. This contrasts with ‘‘Severn Valley’’ timber-framed houses of Montgomeryshire, which have a centrally placed chimney stack within the house and the entrance is placed on the side wall facing the chimney stack, which forms a ‘‘lobby-entrance’’. On the ground floor in Glas Hirfryn, to the left of the entrance, there is a hall and the central beam is decorated with an elaborately carved decorative boss. There was a further chamber at the east end. On the outside on the ground floor the timber framing is close studded and was filled with vertical wattle and daub. The upper storey is decorated with repeating lozenge framing, a feature of other Montgomeryshire timber-framed houses.


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