Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pen Pye Farmhouse (aka Pen-y-pye)
Grosmont, Monmouthshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Pen Pye, Abergavenny, Grosmont, Monmouthshire, designated on 19 October 2000.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- No class recorded
- Date of designation
- 19 October 2000
- Locality
- Pen Pye
- Town
- Abergavenny
- Community
- Grosmont
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.90328, -2.88266
- Cadw reference
- 24158
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV.Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. a. England ab sich: Shire:15-17, 33 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1895 · Sheet 11. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 215 Ross (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Approximately 2 km SW of Grosmont, approached along a long farm track which runs NW off the minor road to Trevyr.
History
Late C16 or early C17 farmhouse.
Exterior
Small farmhouse of c1600. Whitewashed rubble stone; slate roof with stone end-stacks, one with brick cap. Two storeys. S front has large square stack (to left) and smaller stack with moulded cap and water tabling (right). First floor has two 2+2 pane casement windows and ground floor, entrance doorway with boarded door. N elevation on ground floor has C19 6-pane horned sash window with shallow flat timber lintel, and blocked opening with similar lintel (to right). Attached to W gable are ruins of a timber framed building. Attached to E gable is single-storey lean-to with stone tile roof.
Interior
One-unit plan with gable entry. C19 boarded entrance door, opposite is Tudor arched doorway to lean-to. Ground floor has chamfered ceiling beams with hollow and fillet (Wern-hir) stops. Fireplace stair with plank and batten door; winding stone stair. First floor has chamfered fireplace lintel with similar stops.
Reason for designation
Well-preserved C16-C17 farmhouse with unusual single unit storeyed plan. Group value with nearby barn at Pen Pye.
Nearby in the register
- Barn at Pen Pye (aka Pen-y-pye)No class recordedunder 1 mi
- Granary & Cider House at HoaldalbertAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Hoaldalbert FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Barn and attached Hay Barn at HoaldalbertAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.