Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Longcross Farm
Trowbridge, Cardiff, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 19 May 1975
- Locality
- Wentloog Level
- Town
- Cardiff
- Community
- Trowbridge
- Unitary authority
- Cardiff
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.50572, -3.10813
- Cadw reference
- 13823
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
Wentloog Road has been blocked off and absorbed into an as yet (Spring 2000) undeveloped industrial estate; farmhouse is reached through an estate road via a security barrier off Wentloog Avenue.
History
Mid C17 later extended along same axis. Appears as Llancross on Tithe map.
Exterior
Long farmhouse. Of lime-rendered stone rubble with thatched roof and brick end and ridge stacks. Single storey and attic. Original unit to right (W) has 3 dormers with thatched gabled roofs, boarded surrounds and 12-pane sashes; 3 similar larger windows to ground floor with doorway centre right which has boarded door and overlight; additional small (staircase) window between the two windows to left. Later though contiguous wing to left, division marked by a stone pier attached to front wall, has separate door and sash window and flat-roofed extension. Battered.
Interior
Older unit to right retains fireplace with bressumer and old bread oven, stone stairs beside and large chamfered and stopped cross beam. Partition divides off an inner room to right with boxed-in beam. A-frame roof reported as surviving with 2 rows of purlins.
Reason for designation
Listed as a regional farmhouse unusually retaining a thatched roof as well as its C17 core.
Nearby in the register
- Catholic Church of the Blessed SacramentReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Relict Seawall on Rumney Great WharfSeawallunder 1 mi
- Caer Castell CampMotteunder 1 mi
- Ty-du and adjoining byre and stableDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.