Lower Genffordd Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 14 August 1995. Gate lodge. 2 related planning applications.
Lower Genffordd Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- pale-thatch-crag
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brecon Beacons National Park
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 14 August 1995
- Type
- Gate lodge
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Lower Genffordd Farmhouse is an early 17th-century farmhouse constructed of painted rubble stone with a slate roof and brick stacks. The building follows a traditional longhouse plan, comprising a living hall with a large axial stack, a passage to the side leading to a former cowhouse, now a kitchen, and a projecting stair behind the stack. The interior is divided into inner rooms. An added lean-to glazed porch provides access to the main entrance, and a similar porch covers a second entrance to the former cowhouse; a further part-glazed door is also present. 19th-century windows are visible, including a six-pane sash window in the living hall and four-pane sashes on the upper floor, two set within wide gables.
Inside, a large fireplace contains an internal oven and a chamfered fire lintel, with the chamfer extending down the stone jambs. The ceiling features close set chamfered cross beams. Two inner rooms, one formerly a dairy, have been opened up into the hall. There is a step down to the kitchen. The first floor above the hall is supported by two pairs of crucks, likely upper crucks, spaced approximately 8 feet apart, both displaying a crossed apex. Two tiers of purlins are present, these being splay scarfed. A section of the diagonally placed ridge shows a window head with mortices for diamond mullions that were once bridled in.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2019
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
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