Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Breach Farm House
Cowbridge with Llanblethian, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 20 November 1974
- Locality
- Llanblethian
- Community
- Cowbridge with Llanblethian
- Unitary authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.45151, -3.48221
- Cadw reference
- 13391
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
About 1.8km W of Llanblethian, and 300m S of road.
History
C17, and circa 1800. See reconstruction drawing, and photo in RCAHM Inventory.
Exterior
A two-unit, one-and-a half storeyed house with symmetrical front. Stone (rendered), slate roof, end chimneys in brick. Central doorway covered by large porch with catslide roof. Two gabled dormers with 2-light mullion and transom windows under hoodmoulds. On ground floor, similar 3-light window to l, 2-light window to R. To L, added block with one narrow window to each floor. To R, long attached agricultural range, stone, corrugated roof. To rear, at right angles, kitchen block with large brick chimney to N gable; 2 windows, one-and-a-half storeys, upper windows in small dormers, door under lean-to porch. Outshut rears ro main and service blocks.
Interior
Internally there have been some alterations but the main beams survive. The stone stairway was made wider when a rear kitchen was added.
Reason for designation
A well-preserved example of an early gable chimneyed house, rare in Glamorgan.
Nearby in the register
- Round Barrows N of Breach FarmRound Barrowunder 1 mi
- Milepost at the Carne Arms PHTransportunder 1 mi
- Round Barrow 800m SE of Malborough GrangeRound Barrowunder 1 mi
- Great HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.