Site Record

An extremely interesting farmhouse originating in about 1600 which retains an upper cruck roof, and with a major addition of about 1650. This is a two phase building which was originally probably two houses, now amalgamated as one. The original house is an L-shaped block of front range with a projecting rear wing; this is probably of one build. To the right of the front range is an additional range added perhaps fifty years later. This has its own entrance, now the entrance to the whole, and was probably a separate house until the C20. The whole structure is one and a half storeys (except for the two storey and attic rear wing) of plastered and whitewashed rubble with a concrete tile roof replicating stone slates. It is evident from the weathering on three of the chimneys that the roof was once thatched. The fourth chimney without weathering has been rebuilt in recent years.The front elevation has on the left the older section with a two and a three light casement and an eaves dormer above. The eaves project, originally forming a pentice, now a scarce feature, but once characteristic of houses in Monmouthshire and Breconshire. To the right in the woodshed is the original front doorway now blocked. This would have led to a lobby entry. The shed is roofed with a lean-to which also covers the porch of the present main door in the right section, once the entry to a separate house. This section has a small two light casement and a gabled dormer above, also a modern rooflight. Two ridge chimneys on the older roof, the left hand one is smaller suggesting that it heated only the upper room. The later section has a recently rebuilt chimney on the right hand end of the ridge. All external joinery features are C20, as they are on the other elevations, although some of the openings are unaltered. The rear elevation windows are of different sizes, a larger one at the rear of the hall, a smaller one with dripmould to the old dairy and another lighting the upper room in the gable. There are also modern rooflights in several of the roof slopes. The projecting rear wing has an old chimney at the gable end, and a small single storey lean-to.
(Source: Cadw Listings database) S Garfi 15/11/06