Goytre House Farmhouse

Goetre Fawr, Monmouthshire, Wales

A Grade II listed building in Penperlleni, Pontypool, Goetre Fawr, Monmouthshire, designated on 18 July 2001.

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1913) covering the location of Goytre House Farmhouse, Goetre Fawr, Monmouthshire, with a pin at the register's coordinates — Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1913), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Designation: Listed building, Grade II
Broad class: Domestic
Date of designation: 18 July 2001
Locality: Penperlleni
Town: Pontypool
Community: Goetre Fawr
Unitary authority: Monmouthshire
Country: Wales
Coordinates: 51.73758, -2.98526
Cadw reference: 25576

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)
1895 · Sheet 11. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1898 · 232 Abergavenny (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1898 · 232 Abergavenny (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1913 · Sheet 102. Newport. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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Cadw's description

Location

About 300m north west of Penperlleni.

History

A small mid C19 house in the picturesque manner which is possibly one of the improvements to the Pontypool Park estate undertaken in the 1840s by Capel Hanbury Leigh (owner 1795-1861). A rear wing was added to the house in c1900 and it has not been changed externally since. The Mamhilad portion of the Pontypool Park estate was sold in 1926.

Exterior

The original portion of the house is wholly rendered and painted over local rubble stone, the rear wing is red brick, Welsh slate roofs. One storey and attic with a two bay central entrance front to the road and a full two storeys to the later rear wing. The road elevation has a modern panelled door flanked by 10 + 10 small paned casements. These are all under a full width five bay pent verandah on six timber posts with lateral bracing making five 4-centred arches. Two large dormers with small paned casements with dripmoulds over. Plain bargeboards, curled ceramic finials. Two flue stack to right gable. The left gable is blind, the right gable has an upper floor casement. The gabled rear wing has 2 over 2 pane sashes and an end stack.

Interior

Interior not available for inspection at resurvey.

Reason for designation

Included as an attractive picturesque farmhouse which, despite an addition, retains its original character.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Designated Historic Asset GIS Data, The Welsh Historic Environment Service (Cadw), 2026-09-07, licensed under the Open Government Licence http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/ Cadw, the Welsh Historic Environment Service · Open Government Licence v3.0

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