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. Farmhouse. 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
Farmhouse
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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