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
13157
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
22/02/1963
Date of Amendment
14/11/2000
Name of Property
Stable block at Llanharan House
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Rhondda Cynon Taff
Community
Llanharan
Town
Locality
Llanharan
Easting
300765
Northing
183218
Street Side
Location
On the SE side of the house.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Probably built in the first half of the C18 by Rees Powell, contemporary with the house. A rear loose-box wing was built in the period 1856-75 by John Blandy-Jenkins and is first shown on the 1875 Ordnance Survey. The stables were converted to domestic accommodation in 1996 by the Parker Renwick Partnership.
Llanharan House was built by Rees Powell before 1750 and was subsequently enlarged by Richard Hoare Jenkins in the early C19, with additions by the Blandy-Jenkins family later in the C19.
Exterior
Built across a sloping site and of 2 storeys, and basement to the W side, built of rubble stone with a hipped slate roof, which has added brick stacks behind and added skylights. The front (S) wall is 5 bays with horned sashes under keyed heads, and with small lunettes to the upper storey. The gabled centre bay is brought forward and has external stone steps leading up to a doorway with a keyed flat arch beneath a floating pediment on brackets. In the gable is a C19 sundial. On the W side are 2 basement openings comprising round headed doorways (now converted as windows).
The rear has a higher 2-stage stair tower offset to the R, under a hipped roof with plat band and small stair light. A door and window in its L side wall are beneath a single segmental arch. To the L of the stair is a round-headed doorway flanked by windows renewed in original segmental-headed openings, with loft doors further L under a gablet and above 2 small windows. A further segmental-headed window is at the L end. To the R of the stair tower is an added loose box wing which has 3 small windows renewed. Its W gable end, continuous with the wall between house and stable, has ball finials to the eaves and a carved running fox to the apex. In the gable is an armorial tablet bearing the arms of John Blandy-Jenkins.
Interior
The interior is converted for domestic accommodation. The basement comprises 2 tunnel-vaulted rooms.
Reason for designation
Listed as a fine C18 stable block with C19 addition, and for group value with Llanharan House and other associated listed items.
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