The Hill Farmhouse (aka Graig Farm/The Graig) is a Grade II listed building in the Monmouthshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 October 2000. Farmhouse.
The Hill Farmhouse (aka Graig Farm/The Graig)
- WRENN ID
- over-lantern-tarn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 19 October 2000
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Thinly coursed rubble stone, corrugated asbestos and composition slate roof, tile ridge. Two storey range. NW front faces down the hill slope with late C17/early C18 house to right and C18 wing to left. The C18 wing has slightly lower roof line; stone end-stacks. First floor has four tall 2-light windows; wooden frames have slender centre mullion and iron casements with small rectangular leaded lights. Ground floor has two similar 3-light windows. The roof of the adjoining C17 house is without tiles; brick gable stack. Windows are 2-light transoms: two on the first floor with plain heads, two on the ground floor with flat, skewback lintels with stone voussoirs. To left, mid-way between floors, is similar transom and far left, an entrance doorway with timber lintel. NE gable has two blocked windows in upper wall and a 2-light mullion with wooden stanchions on ground floor. SW elevation has a ground-floor doorway with segmental arch of stone voussoirs: C19 double doors, upper panels glazed with narrow marginal side-panes. To right, blocked doorway of C16 screens passage has monolithic jambs and head formed by arched stone slabs. Similar blocked doorway on opposing wall has inserted 2-light window.
Interior only partly accessible at time of resurvey, but contains the remains of fine C18 quarter-turn stair with landings, which had a closed string, turned balusters, square newel posts with attached half balusters, and moulded handrail and dado panelling. The ground floor of the C18 wing has an arched vault at the service end.
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