Pentre-Clawdd Farmhouse and attached cowhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. Farmhouse, cowhouse. 1 related planning application.
Pentre-Clawdd Farmhouse and attached cowhouse
- WRENN ID
- sharp-bailey-laurel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Country
- England
- Type
- Farmhouse, cowhouse
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pentre-Clawdd Farmhouse and attached cowhouse date primarily to the early 19th century, but incorporate elements of an earlier building. The farmhouse is constructed of red brick, with an earlier brick ground floor to the left side dating to the 18th century; it has a slate roof. The farmhouse is two storeys high, featuring a toothed eaves cornice. It has a three-window front with segmental-headed sash windows with glazing bars. The entrance is situated immediately to the left of the centre window, accessed via a plain pilastered doorcase with incised lozenge shapes in the lintel and a flat, bracketed hood. The entrance door is six-panelled with the upper panels now glazed. A large brick stack is positioned directly in front of the ridge between the second and third windows from the left, and a further external stack sits to the left, with 18th-century brickwork visible in the lower portion. A Salop Fire Insurance Plate, unnumbered, is located above the entrance. A straight joint is visible slightly to the left of the entrance, and the left part of the house is slightly recessed, with an earlier roofline visible to the gable end.
The attached cowhouse, also dating to the early 19th century, incorporates two cruck trusses from a 15th-century open-hall house. It is constructed of red brick with a slate roof and has two levels. The front of the cowhouse has a 19th-century three-light casement window on the left and a 20th-century casement window on the right.
Inside the cowhouse, there are two surviving cruck trusses, one approximately in the centre and the second at the junction with the farmhouse; the apexes have been destroyed. The first truss features chamfered elements and a cambered collar; a beam spanning the width of the truss, just above head height, has billet moulding. The second truss retains the cruck blade to the front wall with the collar but has been cut through to the back. A loft has been inserted into the bay to the left of the first truss.
Within the farmhouse, a large chimney breast with an inglenook fireplace and a 19th-century mantel-shelf is present in the hall. A room to the right of the stack has a deep-chamfered spine beam, and exposed joists are visible in the hall. The interior doors are panelled.
The farm is situated within a roughly oval-shaped enclosure defined by walls constructed of steep-banked, roughly coursed limestone rubble and ringed by yew trees, suggesting an early origin for the site. Local information indicates that a church or chapel may have been situated nearby.
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