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Field Farm, Coity Mountain, Blaenavon

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NPRN535
Map ReferenceSO20NW
Grid ReferenceSO2270009840
Unitary (Local) AuthorityTorfaen
Old CountyMonmouthshire
CommunityBlaenavon
Type Of SiteFARMSTEAD
PeriodPost Medieval
Description
Field Farm is a derelict farmstead beside an old track from Abertillery tro Blaenavon, on the east facing slopes of Cefn Coch. It consists of a one and a half storey dwelling with a bakehouse at one end, and a large cowhouse at the other. There is a ruined lean-to at the back. The additions appear to be late nineteenth century, but the house could be from around 1800 or earlier. The walls are rubble built with a slate roof, and although most of the doors have been altered and enlarged there is a small , low, original window with a timber lintel in one of the outer rooms.

The house has a direct-entry plan with opposing doors, but only the rear (south) one is certainly original. The hall has a joist-beam ceiling with thin oak beams, narrow chamfers and plain stops. Thin stone walls seperate two unheated outer rooms. The fireplace has a Victorian cast iron hearth, and beside it are stone steps to the loft. The roof trusses are fairly modern, but the lintels over the outer room doors look like fragments of a re-used collar.

P.R. Davis, July 1994