Coldbrook is a mid to late sixteenth century farmhouse with late seventeenth century alterations. It has been interpreted as, possibly, the solar added to a medieval hall, the hall then replaced by a kitchen in the late seventeenth century. The farmhouse is a two storey whitewashed roughcast over rubble stone building with a slate roof and end stacks. It has a 3 bay front with a central twentieth century porch and twentieth century windows. A two storey rear parlour projection gable has an ornate moulded oak window frame, chamfered with mason-mitred joints. The mullions are longer present having been replaced by a modern casement pair.

The oldest part of the farmhouse contains highly enriched woodwork notably to the ceiling beams and joists of the hall, which have four bead moulds converging at ends and slightly different wave moulds with converging stops to joists. There is similar bead moulding to the parlour window and doorway. Less important rooms have hollow chamfered beams with stepped hollow stops or flat chamfers with diagonal stops.

Source: Cadw Listed Buildings Database record number 2068
Site File MM/DOM/SO40NW
Chris Nicholas, RCAHMW, 15 February 2008

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Coldbrook Farm is one of Fox and Raglan's classic sub-medieval vernacular houses (Monmouthshire Houses, Vol. II). The house is fully two storeyed with attics and has extraordinarily impressive roll-moulded beams and other timberwork included screens on ground and first floors. Coldbrook is best interpreted as an early hearth-passage house of extraordinary quality. Replanning in the C17th involved the addition of a new parlour and central entry. The hall became a working kitchen and the former doorway from the hearth-passage was modified to accommodate an oven. Additional details not recorded by Fox and Raglan includes projecting 'lamp-stands' on either side of the hall fireplace. The house was planned by Leonard Monroe of RCAHMW. The moulded door-frame btween hall and projecting parlour is illustrated in Houses of the Welsh Countryside, Fig. 168b. R.F. Suggett/RCAHMW/Nov. 2010.