Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pen-y-van including attached range to left
Risca, Caerphilly, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 22 October 1999
- Locality
- Pontymister
- Community
- Risca
- Unitary authority
- Caerphilly
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.60217, -3.07412
- Cadw reference
- 22520
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 roughly equidistant between the canal and the main valley thoroughfare, near the E community boundary, the cottage fronting a flagged courtyard.
History
Probably mid C19. Does not show on Risca Tithe Map of 1843. First edition OS map 1886 appears to show this farm as Tyn y berllan, with Pen y Fan the name of a building nearer the road.
Exterior
A small farmhouse and attached barn/byre range. Of limewashed rubble with Welsh slate roof and brick end stacks. Simple 2 window frontage with central doorway; small 3/3 pane casements with stone sills to first floor directly under eaves; larger though not matching to ground floor with shallow hoods, not original; boarded door. Boulder footings and stone bench outside right front window. Attached range in two builds has double doors and ventilation slits near house and other openings with timber lintels; gable end with loft opening partly renewed in blockwork. To rear end barn unit has pantiled roof, outshuts to cottage with small replaced ground floor window and rooflight.
Reason for designation
Included for its rare architectural interest as a small family farmstead of regional character, little altered externally.
Nearby in the register
- Canal Bridge over Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal E of Pen y van (partly in Risca community)Transportunder 1 mi
- Canal Bridge over Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal E of Pen y vanTransportunder 1 mi
- Canal Bridge over Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal S of Ty SignTransportunder 1 mi
- Round Cairn 315m S of Upper WenalltRound Cairnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.