Fenni Fach and attached barns is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 23 March 2005. House. 1 related planning application.

Fenni Fach and attached barns

WRENN ID
graven-foundation-oak
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Brecon Beacons National Park
Country
Wales
Date first listed
23 March 2005
Type
House
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The property comprises a house with attached barns, dating from the late 18th century and later. The house is roughcast rendered with a slate roof and late 19th-century brick chimneys at both ends and along the ridge. It has a long, two-storey, seven-bay front; the right three bays were the original main part of the house, and the left four bays formed a service range. The upper floor has hornless 12-pane sashes, while the lower floor has hornless 16-pane sashes. Doors are located in the second and sixth bays. The main door, in the sixth bay, is within a later 19th-century stuccoed gabled porch featuring bargeboards, double half-glazed doors, an overlight with marginal glazing bars, and a board door leading to the kitchen in the second bay. A lean-to extends from the rear of the main house, containing a 19th-century added main stair, and another lean-to exists behind the service range, functioning as a dairy.

The outbuildings are linked to the left by a short, single-storey range with a window and door. This connects to a barn, which runs at right angles, and another range of similar roof height runs at right angles again, running east and parallel to the single-storey range. The main barn has a slate roof, which extends over a projecting porch bay on the west side. Lean-to ranges are situated on either side. The rear east wall features stone infill to large timber-framed panels, and the roof extends over large doors in the angle where it meets the range at right angles. The south gable end has a well-carved 14th-century corbel in grey stone, displaying a carved face and a moulded round capital, with small vent loops on either side. A timber and slate lean-to is positioned below. The range at right angles has a ground floor window and a broad 20th-century opening, with a loft window above.

The interior was largely altered in the 19th century. The ground floor consists of four rooms: an entrance hall with a room on each side, a large central room to the left of the main chimney and to the right of the service entry, and a kitchen to the left of the service entry. The central room has a fireplace on the east wall, featuring a massive grey stone lintel (with partly rebuilt jambs). One window has 19th-century shutters. A narrow room is located to the left of the entrance passage, exhibiting 19th-century character, with broad 19th-century folding doors leading to the entrance hall. Similar doors open opposite into the right-end parlour, which has a plaster panelled ceiling, likely 18th century, although the details may have been altered in the 19th century. The room has two alcoves on the east end wall. The entrance hall leads to a rear lean-to, containing a 19th-century straight-flight stair on the left and a store to the right. The stair has straight balusters, scrolled tread ends, and a rail which continues with the landing rail. To the left of the central room is a service entry with a narrow, winding oak stair featuring plain square newels, square balusters, and a curved plaster underside. The west end kitchen has a board door, an infilled large west fireplace, 19th-century boarding to the ceiling, and covering a beam. The first floor has oak floorboards in three main rooms. The service stair rises to an attic, which is divided by a wall with an arch above the main fireplace. The east end features heavy, pegged oak collar trusses; one has a plaster partition attached, seemingly positioned over the ceiling beams of the bedrooms below. The west end has four similar trusses with collars, but also the stubs of cut-off lower collars.

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