Grange Farmhouse including attached Brewhouse/Dairy and Lower Cowhouse (aka The Grange) is a Grade II listed building in the Monmouthshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 27 October 2000. Farmhouse, brewhouse, dairy, cowhouse.

Grange Farmhouse including attached Brewhouse/Dairy and Lower Cowhouse (aka The Grange)

WRENN ID
drifting-portal-dock
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Monmouthshire
Constituency
Monmouthshire MP: Catherine Fookes (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
27 October 2000
Type
Farmhouse, brewhouse, dairy, cowhouse
Address
Grange Farmhouse including attached Brewhouse/Dairy and Lower Cowhouse (aka The Grange), Llanvihangel-Ystern-Llewern, Monmouth, Whitecastle
OS grid reference
SO 422 166
Coordinates
51.84536, -2.83943
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

This is a large, early 18th century Renaissance farmhouse, known as The Grange, together with attached later agricultural buildings. The main house is rendered and whitewashed, with a slate roof and projecting end stacks. The symmetrical south front has three storeys, featuring hornless sash windows with shallow stone sills. A 20th century porch with a gabled slate roof occupies the centre of the ground floor, complemented by 3-pane metal windows in the side walls. The entrance doorway has a 4-pane rectangular overlight and a 4-panel door. Flanking the entrance are 24-pane sashes with marginal glazing bars, set within wide segmental arches. The first floor has three 12-pane sashes in narrower segmental openings, while the second floor features three smaller 4-pane sashes in square openings with flat heads. To the left of the main house, a one-and-a-half storey block has whitewashed render, a slate roof, and a partially projecting gable stack with stepped offsets. The ground floor of this block has a casement window and a 20th century glazed door. An attic dormer with a 2+2 pane window is set into the centre of the roof slope. The back elevation contains 2+2 casements on the first and second floors, a 2-light leaded window on the ground floor, and a small leaded staircase window. Lower ground level features two doorways and a 2-light mullion window with iron stanchions; at the east gable, 1-light sunk chamfer mullions with iron stanchions are positioned on either side of the stack. A single-storey brewhouse/dairy wing projects at right angles to the back of the one-and-a-half storey block. This wing has rubble stone walls, a corrugated asbestos roof, and a large stone stack projecting at the north gable with a recessed brick flue. The west front of the brewhouse/dairy features a boarded door with a monopitch canopy, a 6-pane window with a shallow stone sill, and a projecting low stone wall, approximately 2 metres long, with a stone drinking trough and farmyard below. Attached to the end gable of the brewhouse/dairy at this lower level is a single-storey stone cowhouse with a corrugated metal roof. The west front of the cowhouse includes a boarded door, a blocked door, and two further boarded doors.

The interior of the main farmhouse includes a central entrance lobby with a coved ceiling cornice and 4-panel doors. Ground floor rooms feature shutters with fielded panels and dado rails. A room to the right of the entrance has a moulded ceiling cornice and a 20th century fireplace, while the room to the left contains a blocked fireplace opening, with a former 18th century wooden eared architrave stored in the cellar. Behind the entrance lobby is a pantry with an 18th century 8-panel door. A central oak staircase with winders and a wall rail rises to the upper floors, which each contain three bedrooms. The first floor has a good 18th century bolection moulded fireplace surround, while the second floor retains reused roof timbers forming 6 bays, with collar trusses, and two tiers of purlins. The interior of the one-and-a-half storey block has a ground-floor kitchen with chamfered ceiling beams, panel shutters, and a spit rack above the fireplace. The lower cowhouse has a 5-bay interior with early 19th century roof-trusses incorporating angled queen struts. The interior of the brewhouse/dairy was not inspected at the time of resurvey.

Local climate

Grange Farmhouse including attached Brewhouse/Dairy and Lower Cowhouse (aka The Grange) receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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