Cwrt y Brychan is a Grade II listed building in the Monmouthshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 August 1955. House.

Cwrt y Brychan

WRENN ID
slow-minaret-mallow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Monmouthshire
Country
Wales
Date first listed
19 August 1955
Type
House
Source
Cadw listing

Description

House, rubble stone with slate roof, two storeys, mostly modernised in later C20. Left end is a C16 block, main range C17, but all much altered with low-pitched roofs. Rebuilt brick stacks, C20 windows, concrete lintels and sills. Main range is hipped to N with red brick N end ridge stack, 3 window range to front. Low single storey addition projects from right end. Left end cross-wing has door in return wall. E gable end has small blocked gable light in chamfered frame, first floor left C16 2-light stone mullion window with depressed-arched heads to lights and hoodmould, C20 window to right, and ground floor C20 window to left. Photograph in Fox & Raglan shows a lost gable chimney and that the 2 C20 windows replace C19 casement pairs. S side wall has brick and stone rebuilt wall face stack and another matching first floor mullion window, recently re-opened. Altered stable range added to S. Garden front has 3-window range of C20 windows, gable to right, projecting wing to left with C20 windows.

Main ground floor opened out in C20, one grooved beam with chamfers and stepped hollow stops probable site of partition. Another 2 similar beams, one over fireplace with massive lintel. C20 stairs. First floor centre room has fireplace with massive stone lintel and traces of C17 wall-paining on lintel, red and black big squares with leaf pattern. Relieving arch over. Cross-wing E room has the 2 stone mullion windows and chamfered fireplace with stone lintel and herringbone stonework within.

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