Church Farmhouse and attached barn is a Grade II* listed building in the Monmouthshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 4 March 1952. A C17 House.

Church Farmhouse and attached barn

WRENN ID
hallowed-rubble-yarrow
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Monmouthshire
Country
Wales
Date first listed
4 March 1952
Type
House
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Church Farmhouse and the attached barn date from the 17th century and are constructed of whitewashed rubble stone with a slate roof on the house and a corrugated iron roof on the barn. The house, located to the north, is one and a half storeys high and features a small roughcast stack at the left end and a brick stack on the ridge. There are two eaves dormers, one at each end of the ridge stack. The ground floor has two windows to the left of the ridge stack, both with timber lintels, and one window to the right of the stack, slightly right of the eaves dormer. There is an additional window further right in the left end of the barn. All windows are casement pairs, except for the left window, which has been extended to serve as a French window. The north end wall is whitewashed roughcast. The rear of the house has two skylights and a door to the left of two windows, one being a 20th-century casement pair and the other a fixed four-pane window.

The barn features full-height double doors and a single-storey range extending forward to the right, topped with Bridgewater clay tiles. The rear of the barn is made of rubble stone and also has double doors.

The building has a two-room plan that extends into the barn. There is a door with a slot in the jamb for a draw-bar and massive posts supporting a chamfered frame. Inside, there is a fine post and panel partition with chamfered posts and diagonal stops, and the end doors have Tudor arched heads with studded plank doors. The partition includes long panels and five small square panels above, which are not aligned. The first three panels feature faded paintings of figures in 17th-century dress, depicting a man, a child, and a woman, along with faint remnants of lettering. The chimney at the south end has been rebuilt further back, retaining the original chamfered lintel. The beams are chamfered, with chamfered joists and slightly curved stepped stops. The room behind the partition was subdivided into two, with a lower end kitchen and stairs located in the former upper end of the barn. A fine reused plank door from Allt-y-bela is present, with the Tudor head found buried in the chimney rubble at Church Farm. Upstairs, there is one cruck truss, with the feet visible by the partition. Fox & Raglan found no evidence of framing between the collar and tie beams of the cruck, which is not chamfered.

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