Glyn Bran Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Torfaen local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 17 November 1987. Farmhouse.
Glyn Bran Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torfaen
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 17 November 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
This is a farmhouse, likely dating to the 17th century, constructed of whitewashed rubble stone with imitation stone tiles to the roofs and whitewashed stone end stacks. A long front range features a prominent gable to the left, built of squared rubble stone, with an apex chimney and weathercourses around an attic casement-pair window, the courses being lead-clad from the late 20th century. The ground floor has a central French window, and casement pairs to the left. Two renewed oak brackets support a pentice over the front door, with a third to the right. Another ground floor casement pair sits to the right, bearing an oak lintel. Further to the right are two larger casement pairs, one possibly a former doorway, beneath the remains of a former pentice, evidenced by three cut-off beam ends and two surviving beams. An eaves dormer is positioned above the first of these windows, containing a casement pair with a timber lintel. A small ground floor casement pair is located furthest to the right where the front wall is noticeably battered. Six steep stone steps lead down to an arched doorway revealing a stone-vaulted basement room.
The right-hand end wall has a conservatory addition, with the curve of a former bread oven visible. A casement pair is present on the first floor to the right, and a diamond-mullioned oak window is positioned to the right. On the rear wall to the left, a battered base is visible alongside six cut-off ends of another pentice, above a 20th-century oak 4-light diamond-mullioned window. A 20th-century stone wing has been added to the rear, incorporating a reused oak-plank entrance door in the angle to the main range. The left-hand gable of the main range features a rounded bread-oven projection, supported by corbels, with squared rubble stone walling and two raised bands.
The original interior layout comprised two rooms: a kitchen to the west and a hall to the east. The kitchen has five 20th-century beams and a 20th-century fireplace; a former dividing wall situated west of the French window, beneath a large beam, has been removed. A good-quality 17th-century post and panel partition remains between the rooms, featuring segmental-arched heads to plank doors and chamfered, stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops around the panels. Above the partition is a beam with stepped ogee stops, a characteristic "Wernhir type." The hall also contains five similar beams, with the last directly over the fireplace, featuring an oak lintel and a small triangular recess inset within it. A winding stair is located to the left of the fireplace, with three oak steps at the base, and a doorway to the right leads to a former closet. The added rear wing has 20th-century stairs. The loft contains a large raised cruck truss in the centre, with a pegged yoke, an oak collar truss to the east and two to the west, the westernmost dated 1774 on its front wall foot.
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