Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pwllyrhwyaid Farmhouse
Goetre Fawr, Monmouthshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 3 July 2007
- Locality
- Upper Llanover
- Community
- Goetre Fawr
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.77003, -3.01113
- Cadw reference
- 87533
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
About 1km W of Llanover Village, reached by track off minor road.
History
Probably mid C17 and later. Fox & Raglan recorded ovolo windows, a shaped doorhead, notched collars to the roof trusses, and scroll stopped beams.
Exterior
Farmhouse; two storeys; stone, mainly smooth render; stone slate roof; rectangular brick chimneys to ends with another on ridge towards SW.
Long entrance front faces SE; exposed stone section to R; four windows at first foor level. On ground floor, in third bay, a gabled porch with round-arched doorway. At L end, a lean-to block. Right gable end has 2 windows to each floor. Rear has a lean-to block at NE end, and a large early C20 porch with stone slate roof supported on 3 tapering posts resting on low wall.
Interior
Not available.
Reason for designation
Listed for its origins as a mid C17 regional type farmhouse, and for group value with adjacent agricultural range.
Nearby in the register
- Barn and Cowhouse at Pwllyrhwaid FarmNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Overflow on Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal between Bridges 82 and 83Transportunder 1 mi
- Bridge No. 82 Monmouthshire and Brecon CanalTransportunder 1 mi
- Llwyn-celynDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.