Pantyquesta House is a Grade II listed building in the Rhondda Cynon Taf local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 15 August 2000. Country house. 1 related planning application.

Pantyquesta House

WRENN ID
muted-tracery-winter
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Rhondda Cynon Taf
Constituency
Cardiff West MP: Mr Alex Barros-Curtis (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
15 August 2000
Type
Country house
Address
Pantyquesta House, Pontyclun, Pont-Y-Clun, Rhondda Cynon Taff, CF72 8JU
OS grid reference
ST 043 802
Coordinates
51.51259, -3.38047
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Pantyquesta House is a Tudor-style country house dating from the 18th century. It is constructed of coursed rock-faced stone with a slate roof, partly renewed, hipped to the right and half-hipped to the left. A tall brick stack remains on the front left. The house has two main storeys plus an attic. The mullioned windows originally had leaded lights and sashes, though some have been replaced with modern materials. The front of the house faces a drive on the north side.

The entrance is emphasized by a gabled, two-bay projection situated slightly left of centre. The doorway is located on the right side of this projection, sheltered by a shallow segmental arch, and is accompanied by a three-light window to its left. This window has a linked hood mould decorated with mythical beasts at the stops. The porch created by the projection contains a half-lit door with Tudor-arched panels, flanked by similar panels and an overlight. Above the entrance is a three-light window on the right side and a large three-light window with two transoms, which illuminates the stairwell to the left. An attic window is also present. To the left of the entrance projection, a single bay features a one-light window on the lower level and a gabled roof dormer with a two-light casement. The right side of the entrance front is less regular, with single and two-light windows. The east elevation includes two two-light windows on the lower level, and a two-light window upper right and a single-light window upper centre.

On the south garden front are projecting, two-storey castellated towers at each end. These towers have three-light windows facing forward, two-light upper-storey windows on the west side of both towers, and doorways on the inward-facing sides. These doorways have half-lit entrances on the right and replaced entrances on the left. Between the towers are two bays of unequal width. The wider, gabled bay on the right has a four-light mullioned and transomed window on the lower level, with a two-light window above and a window to light the attic. The left-hand bay contains a four-light lower-storey window and a pair of single-light windows above. An Art Nouveau style veranda, with three cast iron columns and a replaced glazed roof, has been inserted in the space between the towers.

The west end continues with a lower two-storey bay housing service accommodation. Beyond this is a courtyard enclosed by single-storey stables, a coach house, and workshops, maintaining original boarded doors with large strap hinges. Adjacent to the house, along the east side of the courtyard, is a single-storey range now converted into a garage. A gateway on the north side provides access to the courtyard.

Inside, the stair hall contains an open-well stair with pierced Gothic panels between the balusters. The drawing room, located on the southwest side, features a neo-classical plaster ceiling with oval panels.

Local climate

Pantyquesta House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,150 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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