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

Description

House, whitewashed rubble stone with slate roof (formerly stone tiled at eaves) to house and corrugated iron roof to barn in line. House to N of one and a half storeys, has small roughcast left end stack and brick stack on ridge. Two eaves dormers, one to left end, one to right of ridge stack. Ground floor has two windows to left of ridge stack with timber lintels, and one to right of stack and slightly right of eaves dormer, and one further right in left end of barn. All casement pairs except that to left which has been lengthened as French window. Whitewashed roughcast N end wall. Rear has 2 skylights, door to left of 2 windows, one C20 casement pair, the other a fixed 4-pane window.

Barn has full-height double doors and single storey range coming forward to right with Bridgewater clay tiles to roof. Barn rear is rubble stone with double doors.

Two-room plan extended into barn. Door with slot in jamb for draw-bar, massive posts to chamfered frame. Fine post and panel partition with chamfered posts and diagonal stops, end doors with Tudor arched heads, studded plank doors. Partition has long panels and 5 small square panels above, not in line, and the first 3 have faded paintings of figures in C17 dress, a man, a child and a woman, faint remnants of lettering also. Chimney at S end has been rebuilt further back with original chamfered lintel. Beams are chamfered with chamfered joists, stepped slightly curved stops. Room behind partition was subdivided in two. Lower end kitchen and stairs in former upper end of barn. Fine reused plank door from Allt-y-bela, the Tudor head found buried in the chimney rubble at Church Farm. Upstairs has one cruck truss 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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