Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Cyncoed Farm Cottage
Penmaen, Caerphilly, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 25 February 1982
- Locality
- Cwm Philkins
- Community
- Penmaen
- Unitary authority
- Caerphilly
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.67212, -3.17182
- Cadw reference
- 1902
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
On the hillside, the E slope of Cwm Philkins, reached by a lane leading S from Oakdale village and a short farm track.
History
Late C16/early C17. Sited nearby downhill is a later farmhouse with attached range which may be its successor.
Exterior
A small cottage in two units. Of stone rubble fully rendered with steep pitched replaced slate roof incorporating dormers. Single storey and attic and front porch to the main unit with lower single bay single storey extension to side. Windows altered but to rear a pentice the length of the main unit is retained; beneath are two small casement windows. Battered.
Interior
Interior retains open fireplace with bread oven, spiral stair with oak treads to right behind original wide plank door with deep hinges, heavy cross beams stopped and chamfered. Two small rooms were formerly separated by post and panel screen with segmental arch but to enlarge the room, the re-sited screen now serves as panelling to the gable end wall with a new staircase adjacent. A-frame roof trusses believed to survive.
Reason for designation
Included as a small regional house which although partly modernised retains a substantial proportion of its historic fabric in particular a wide pentice and interior features.
Nearby in the register
- Pentref-y-GroesDomesticunder 1 mi
- Barn and byre range at Pen-y-groes 3Agriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- The Oakdale Public HouseRecreationalunder 1 mi
- Penmaen HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.