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
13499
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
09/09/1974
Date of Amendment
31/01/2000
Name of Property
Pant-y-gored including attached byre range to right
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Cardiff
Community
Pentyrch
Town
Locality
Creigiau
Easting
309006
Northing
181052
Street Side
Location
Set on a bank above a crossroads between the villages of Creigiau and Pentyrch and fronting a flagged terraced forecourt bordered by a stone wall.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
c 1500 with later C18 alterations. P. Smith identifies it as an early storeyed house with hall and parlour of equal size, whose use was later reversed. Chamber above hall was originally open to roof whereas that over parlour has loft over. Owner reports house was thatched until 1950s. Mentioned in Rhys Meurig Booke of Glamorganshire Antiquities 1578.
Exterior
Farmhouse, a T-unit structure, slightly battered. Of stone rubble with brick surrounds, Welsh slate roof with end corniced stacks. 2 storeys. Front elevation has a 4-window range of 3/3 horned sashes, cambered heads and keystones; ground floor has doorway with overlight and boarded door centre left, similar window to left and 2 to right. Gable end left (W) has a wide chimney projection with single storey outshut extending forward, stepped down and with a chimney in gable end, former wash-house . Attached to right (E) is a range of outbuildings comprising a low tiled roof over a lime-rendered former byre with cambered windows and central doorway; attached to right a taller former stable and granary with stone steps to gable end and single window range, similar cambered heads, though with stone voussoirs.
Interior
Ground floor has two large rooms separated by a cross passage with chamfered and stopped joists. To left room a massive chamfered and stopped cross beam and joists, fireplace with moulded 4-centred arch, restored, with moulded jambs, flag floor. Right room has stone arch with voussoirs from passage, again massive chamfered and stopped cross beam and joists, very large open fireplace, pointed-arched stone doorway to stairs in rear wall. Stairs of stone have added wood treads; slab ceiling to stairs and further pointed arched doorway on upper floor. Doorway leading into front bedroom has an ornate timber-framed door-head carved with a fleur-de-lys. A-frame roof timbers believed to be retained, small parts of the trusses visible on first floor.
Reason for designation
Listed primarily for its importance as a late medieval farmhouse.
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