Swimbridge Farmhouse with attached garden walls is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of Glamorgan local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 10 September 1982. Farmhouse.
Swimbridge Farmhouse with attached garden walls
- WRENN ID
- eternal-bonework-wren
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 10 September 1982
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Probably local rubblestone walls with roughcast cladding. Welsh slate gabled roof with rendered stone flanking stacks. Two storey single depth plan farmhouse with lower two storey wing to left and single storey one to right, both in line. Upper and ground floor openings not in alignment. On ground floor, two sash windows two panes wide with horns, with a late C20 doorway with trellis porch to right; three 2-light wood casements on first floor. C17 type plank doors. Lower south-west service wing with 2-light window with small panes to left hand below, similar loft window in middle and wooden boarded door to right hand. Adjoining north-east outbuilding with gabled slate roof and whitewashed stone rubble walls, late C20 windows. Rear elevation with two storey wing and similar windows. Garden to south-east of house enclosed by stone rubble walls on south-east and south-west, the south-east wall with roughly rounded stone coping, serving as a north retaining wall along the Ogney Brook. The south-west garden wall with various stone copings; C19 iron gate towards northern end with circular uprights with arrowheaded finials rising alternately above top and middle rails. From north-west of gate, wall returns to service wing.
South-west room with three stopped and chamfered beams, arched, stopped and chamfered doorway to stone fireplace stair which has a corbelled roof. The fireplace has been revealed since listing in 1982. It has chamfered stone jambs, though with differing stops, and an oak lintel. The house has the rare feature of a stone wall dividing the hall and the inner room, rising through both floors. The present main door now enters the inner room. The south-west extension retains a bread oven with iron door.
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