Great House Farmhouse and attached Barn is a Grade II listed building in the Cardiff local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 6 October 1977. Farmhouse, barn.
Great House Farmhouse and attached Barn
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-rotunda-aspen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cardiff
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 6 October 1977
- Type
- Farmhouse, barn
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The property comprises a farmhouse and an attached barn, dating from the 17th century with alterations and additions through the 18th and 19th centuries. The farmhouse has thick stone walls, externally rendered with whitewash. It has a gable roof covered in Welsh slate, originally thatched. The attached barn is similarly constructed with whitewashed rubble stone and a Welsh slate roof.
The north-east elevation displays a mix of features from the 18th and 19th centuries, alongside later 20th-century joinery at ground floor level. The first floor has a series of sash windows: one with 8 over 8 panes, another with 6 over 6 panes, a third with 6 over 6 panes above a low 6-panelled door with the two top panels glazed, and finally another window with 6 over 6 panes. A two-light casement with small panes is on the ground floor, followed by another sash window with 6 over 6 panes and a blank section of walling extending to the eastern angle, which incorporates a later kitchen extension. The attached rectangular barn has a lower roofline, a small cart entry near the house, and a vertical slit vent at the far end, with a blind gable wall. Both the house and barn have a fairly low-pitched roof. The house ridge features two stacks: a plain central stack with two flues serving the hall and an upper room, and a kitchen stack on the left gable with diamond-set shafts. The stack serving the outer room no longer projects above the roofline. A stone rubble wall encloses the garden fronting the north-east elevation, interrupted by a gateway with 19th-century piers and capping. A two-storey wing is built against the south-west elevation, with an outshut set against the north-west wall of the wing; a first-floor doorway in the north-west wall has been removed, and the current entrance is on the south-east side. Additional two-storey units are present at each end of the farmhouse.
The interior was not inspected during the recent resurvey, but the existing listed description, corroborated by records, indicates a two-room house with a cross passage behind the hall hearth and an outer room separated from the cross passage by a timber screen. The hall features stop-chamfered cross beams with run-out stops. Above the outer room on the first floor is a corbelled fireplace with broach stops to the stone jambs. A stone dog-leg staircase enters through the south wall of the hall. An additional two-storey unit at the east end contains a fireplace and oven, and a first-floor room retains chamfered beams with lambs tongue stops, suggesting a date of construction between 1625 and 1660. The roof trusses are principal rafters with mortice-and-tenon jointed collars. The interior of the barn was not inspected, but its profile suggests it is also 17th-century, with a low roof pitch indicative of a queen strut roof, which is common for barns of this type.
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