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
11848
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
04/06/1987
Date of Amendment
01/03/2004
Name of Property
Gelli Galed Farmhouse
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Neath Port Talbot
Community
Crynant
Town
Neath
Locality
Treforgan
Easting
278531
Northing
205162
Street Side
Location
Approached from Treforgan up a forest track along the E side of Mynydd Marchywel. The farmhouse is set on an open hillside to S of woodland and overlooks the Dulais Valley.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Farmhouse c 1630 and later C17 with C18 extensions, partly remodelled in C19 with later cross range
Exterior
Farmhouse, low 2 storey 3 window E front, low rendered stacks; rendered and whitewashed rubble stone walls originally with long slated roof now mainly collapsed. Recessed 2-light casements and porch with pitched roof. N gable with corbelled chimney over ground floor. S end has cow house cross range projecting with ventilation slit low down in angle and collapsed slate roof orginally on A-frame trusses. C19 cartshed to W end. Rubble stone walled enclosure with tree-lined approach.
Interior
Not accessible as roof has collapsed over most of the building. Interior of main house said to include chamfered main beams to ground floor (older parts with broach stops), arched "porch" door through S wall of hall flanking original flue and remains of turning staircase. Stone flagged floors throughout, D-frame trusses, large chimney breasts within gable end walls. Later lean-to extension along W side contained C18 dairy with stone slab benches.
Reason for designation
Included despite its deteriorating condition for its historic interest as a largely C17 farmhouse.
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