Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Ty-Gwyn
Goetre Fawr, Monmouthshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 9 January 1956
- Locality
- Llanover
- Town
- Abergavenny
- Community
- Goetre Fawr
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.76548, -2.99148
- Cadw reference
- 1997
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 100m east of the A4052 at the southern entrance to Llanover village.
History
Late C16 (Fox & Raglan type IIB) house with early C17 addition at right angles to its east, a mid C19 (?) block to the rear. Fox & Raglan reported a Tudor door head, studded panels, and Wern-hir stops
Exterior
Farmhouse; stone, mainly stone tiled roof. Three main blocks, a C16 gabled block to L, with a C17 block at right angles, and a probably C19 block to rear.
Two-window C17 block with a 2-light and a 3-light window to first floor. Doorway beneath wooden porch (blocked window to L under porch); a 2-light window towards R. Right hand gable has a broad window on each floor under a drip stone; upper window retains central diamond mullion; modern glazing on ground floor. Gable of C16 block to L has a tall square corbelled chimney, a tiny attic window, and a 4-light ground floor window. Left return has a dormer set across eaves, and 2 ground floor windows, one possibly a former doorway; another stone chimney to rear, and flat-roofed extension. Rear C19 block has window under drip mould, former chimney breast, 3-pane over 6-pane hornless sash window facing E.
Interior
Not accessible.
Reason for designation
A C16 and C17 farmhouse typical of the region retaining overall character.
Nearby in the register
- Hanover ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- HanoverReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Gates and Gatepiers to Hanover ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Milestone-Abergavenny 4Transportunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.