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Village Farmhouse

Penhow, Newport, Wales

A Grade II listed building in Penhow Village, Penhow, Newport, designated on 19 December 1995.

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1913) covering the location of Village Farmhouse, Penhow, Newport, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1913), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Designation
Listed building, Grade II
Broad class
Domestic
Date of designation
19 December 1995
Locality
Penhow Village
Community
Penhow
Unitary authority
Newport
Country
Wales
Coordinates
51.61578, -2.84456
Cadw reference
17083

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1895 · Sheet 11. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1897 · 250 Chepstow (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1905 · 250 Chepstow (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1913 · Sheet 102. Newport. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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Cadw's description

Located on the S side of the A48 opposite Pen-y-Worlod Cottage, set back from the road behind a front garden enclosed by a low rubble wall with cock and hen coping.

Early C19 farmhouse in Regency style. Two storeys, slated hipped roof with two end brick chimneystacks. Rendered elevations. Three windows wide, central doorway with four panelled door and semi-circular fanlight over. To ground floor, flanking twelve paned sashes without horns, to first floor, three, narrower, four paned sashes with horns, all symmetrically aligned. Late C19 rear parallel range extending beyond the E gable of the main house, constructed in local rubblestone with redbrick dressings, some four pane sashes with horns to first floor. Roadside (N) elevation of this range has a number of sashes, some replaced, including a Yorkshire sliding sash to ground floor. The rear of the property has been further extended more recently.
Front garden wall has early C19 cast iron gate and flanking fixed panels with anthemion design.

Symmetrical floorplan with central hallway to earlier range. Now subdivided into two self contained units. Interior modernised. Some C19 pine plank doors to ground floor and window shutters to front ground floor rooms.

Listed grade II as a small Regency farmhouse in a prominent roadside location.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Designated Historic Asset GIS Data, The Welsh Historic Environment Service (Cadw), 2026-09-07, licensed under the Open Government Licence http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/ Cadw, the Welsh Historic Environment Service · Open Government Licence v3.0
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