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Cadw's description

Location

The farmhouse stands back from the minor road from Bryn Crug to Llanfihangel-y-pennant, near the community boundary.

History

The uphill sited farmhouse was probably built in the late C17 to early C18, a date of 1711 appearing on a date stone over the door. It consists of a low hall at the lower end, an inner room and an upper heated room, perhaps a later addition. It received a W wing at right angles to the lower end, probably in c1834, the date on the main gable end, or within the following 2 decades, and various lean-to structures on the E side.

Exterior

The building is constructed in local rubble stone, with some surviving rendering and with some ashlar and slate roofs with lateral stacks to original range. The original entrance is on the W, behind the added wing; a doorway with a 3-centred depressed head formed with long radial stone voussoirs, above which is a square drip course, and above again, a datestone reading C / V A / 1711. To the right, the wall has been rebuilt with squared stone, the 3 bays of uPVC windows to ground floor set into original openings with slate sills. The raised dormers of the upper floor have similar windows within small bargeboarded gables. The NW gable end, facing the road, is coped with kneelers. It has a modern uPVC glazed door to the ground floor, raised over a cellar, and approached by a winding stair. The first floor has a 2-light window a drip label, and a small square window, also with a drip course, to the attic (renewed in uPVC). This elevation is continued to the W by the C19 wing, with one raised dormer. A small squint appears in the angle. The NE side has two major stacks, one being a lateral stack to the hall, joined by a pitched roof, and a shouldered secondary stack to the rear, inner room. Continuous lean-to along the whole side, the old thick slate roof partly replaced with corrugated asbestos. At the upper gable end, the attic loft is approached at ground level.

Interior

Not accessible at the time of inspection.

Reason for designation

Included as a substantial post-medieval farmhouse of unusual form, retaining much of its early C18 character, extended in good quality work of the mid C19.