Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
11229
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
26/07/1963
Date of Amendment
Name of Property
The Pheasant
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Bridgend
Community
Newcastle Higher
Town
Locality
Pen-y-Fai
Easting
289452
Northing
181877
Street Side
Location
Located on E side of Heol Eglwys, NE of church, and facing playground to S.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
Built c1600 and consisting of a hall and parlour. The original entrance was in the gable end; the hall fireplace was in the rear lateral wall and was contained with the stairs in a shallow projection. The parlour was also heated with a fireplace in the rear lateral wall. Later, fireplaces were built in each gable end and a doorway was inserted in the front lateral wall. A lean-to dairy and bakehouse was added c1850. The house was modernised in 1967 when the windows were replaced and later was converted to a public house.
Exterior
Two-storey, 2-unit house of rubble sandstone with slate roof and end stone stacks with moulded caps (the stack to L projecting on a corbel table). Originally a 3-window front of 3-light mullioned windows with hood moulds, a 4th window was added above the porch when the other upper storey windows were renewed in concrete late C20. In the lower storey are two similar but larger 4-light windows to R of porch inserted into earlier openings, and a 3-light window inserted to L of porch. The porch is a C19 brick lean-to, formerly rendered. The R gable end has 3-light mullioned window to R in the upper storey. The dairy and bakehouse lean-to against the L gable end has lately inserted openings in its lateral wall and a blocked doorway to front. To the rear is a centrally-placed shallow stair turret and a gabled bay to L with end stone stack. (Single-storey C20 additions to rear.)
Interior
An original masonry partition wall survives in part, but has been cut through to make a single room, now the main bar of the public house. The main unit to L has a joist beam ceiling which has 2 cross beams supported on corbels in the rear wall; the smaller unit to R has 2 spine beams. In each unit the ceiling is plastered between the joists. In the unit to R is a renewed stone fireplace.
Reason for designation
Not withstanding extensive alterations, the Pheasant is included for its considerable features of a sub-medieval hall and parlour house.
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