Benar Farmhouse, including Forecourt Wall and Stairs is a Grade II* listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 13 October 1966. A C17 Farmhouse.
Benar Farmhouse, including Forecourt Wall and Stairs
- WRENN ID
- sunken-belfry-dale
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Snowdonia National Park
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 13 October 1966
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Benar Farmhouse, which includes a forecourt wall and stairs, features two distinct blocks from the 16th and 17th centuries. The entrance front of the 16th-century block faces northeast and is two storeys high, constructed of rubble with a rectangular stone chimney on the right and a 19th-century slate roof. The doorway is offset to the left and is flanked by broad casement windows, with three additional casement windows above, one of which is set lower than the others. There is a 19th-century extension to the northwest, which has a window on each floor, and the northwest gable end features a first-floor doorway under a deep stone lintel. A later extension at the rear has a lean-to roof.
The entrance front of the 17th-century block faces southeast over the valley and is dateable to 1693. This block is also two storeys high with five symmetrical bays, made of roughly coursed rubble slabs and topped with a 19th-century slate roof. It has tall stone chimneys, with the left chimney being rectangular and the right chimney square. The windows are vertically proportioned and glazed with small-pane hornless sashes, with first-floor windows under stop-chamfered wooden lintels and ground-floor windows having deep stone lintels. A central gabled porch features two rubble masonry columns and an original planked and nail-studded front door, which has decorative iron strap hinges inscribed with 'RP' and '1693'.
In front of the 1693 block is a walled garden terrace, which can be accessed from the southeast via an axial stone stairway with rubble walls capped with slate slabs, and stone seats in recesses at the halfway point.
Inside the 16th-century block, there is an entrance passage with an old in-and-out partition to the left. The kitchen, located to the right beyond a modern partition, features a massive stop-chamfered beam, stop-chamfered joists, and an inglenook fireplace with a stop-chamfered lintel. An opening to the right of the fireplace likely indicates the site of an early stair, with a modern wooden stair now present. The first floor has a post and panel partition with some original plaster infill panels above the tie beam of the roof truss, and this partition includes two pointed-headed doorways, one of which has an old boarded door with iron strap hinges. The roof structure features queen posts.
The 17th-century block was reordered around 1852 but retains its stop-chamfered beams and joists on the ground floor.
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