Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pencarreg
Llangybi, Monmouthshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 18 November 1980
- Locality
- Llangybi
- Town
- Pontypool
- Community
- Llangybi
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.67892, -2.90778
- Cadw reference
- 2682
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
Off the west side of the Usk-Caerleon road and about 1600m north of Llangybi village.
History
Early C17, reconstructed 1663. Modernisation includes rear wing with gabled cross-range.
Exterior
Rendered 1-storey and attic farmhouse, slate roofs with three gabled dormers, rendered brick chimney to left gable end and larger chimney to centre . One casement windows to left, french windows to right and modern, gabled porch with rubble plinth off-centre left. Rear with linking range to 2-storey cross-gabled wing in rendered style of main house.
Interior
Originally a one-room plan. Large hearth with chamfered stone jambs in right-hand room (up steps). Passage leads back from off-centre entrance within modern porch.
Reason for designation
Listed as a sub-medieval farmhouse which has retained its vernacular character and plan form to main range.
Nearby in the register
- Hill FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Llandowlais FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Little Cwm-dowlais FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Llangibby Castle MoundMotteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.