Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Cwm Farmhouse and attached outbuilding
Llanarth, Monmouthshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 15 March 2000
- Locality
- Bettws Newydd
- Town
- Usk
- Community
- Llanarth
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.75871, -2.92927
- Cadw reference
- 22996
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
Situated on W side of road about 1 km N of Bettws Newydd.
History
Farmhouse possibly of earlier origins, but externally probably C18. Marked on 1845 Clytha tithe map as owned by Sir Samuel Fludyer and occupied by Peter Marfell, while barn opposite is shown on 1842 Bettws Newydd tithe map, with 158 acres (64 Hectares) in the two parishes.
Exterior
Farmhouse, whitewashed render with slate close-eaved roof and small whitewashed end stacks. Two-storey, three-window front with widely separated casement pair windows, those on upper floor smaller, under eaves and small-paned. Irregular bay spacing, wider right of centre. Centre added gabled porch, whitewashed with slate roof and half-glazed door. S end first floor window. Rear added broad gabled wing.
Outbuilding to right with lower roof of clay tiles. Tiny window extreme left, small 4-pane window centre, door to right.
Interior
Not available for inspection, said to have been modernised.
Reason for designation
Included as a well-preserved C18 farmhouse forming group with outbuildings across road.
Nearby in the register
- Barn range at Cwm FarmAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Open-bay outbuilding on S side of farmyard at Cwm FarmReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Outbuilding at E end of farmyard at Cwm FarmAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Trostrey LodgeDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.