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
138
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
23/06/1967
Date of Amendment
08/04/1997
Name of Property
Plas Uchaf Farmhouse
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Conwy
Community
Ysbyty Ifan
Town
Locality
Plas Uchaf
Easting
285482
Northing
349153
Street Side
Location
Strikingly located on a hill site overlooking the Afon Caletwr, approximately 1.8km NE of Ysbyty Ifan village; accessed via a farm track leading SE off an unclassified road running SW from Pentrefoelas to Ysbyty Ifan.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Large sub-medieval storeyed house of c1560-90, built in unit-planned arrangement with the earlier (second-quarter/mid C16) house to the W. Early C17 and C19 additions, the latter in the form of two storeyed wings to the rear and a storeyed continuation to the E. Substantial later C19 alterations following the farm's purchase by Col. Edward Douglas-Pennant (of Penrhyn) as part of the Tir Ifan and Eidda estate c1856; currently owned by the National Trust.
Exterior
Storeyed house of irregular plan with roughcast rubble walls and C19 slate roofs; red brick gable copings. Small, plain late C19 staged chimneys of render and brick. The house faces N across its farmyard, with a hill-slope to the rear. Asymmetrical main front with late C19 recessed 6-pane sash windows. A small storeyed and gabled wing projects outwards from the centre of the primary range. Extruded in its angle to the R, a single-storey C19 porch; modern part-glazed door. To the L of the projecting wing, an entrance with C20 brick gabled porch; late C19 part-glazed door. Beyond this, to the L, a further, C19 bay, continuously-roofed with the main block; single-storey lean-to to the L. To the rear are lower storeyed ranges, projecting southwards and forming a 'U' with the primary block; plain gables and a projecting end chimney to that to the R, its stack removed. Modern windows.
Interior
High ceiling to former hall with fine mid-Elizabethan moulded and stopped-chamfered main and subsidiary beams; stopped-chamfered joists. Central stack at former service end, implying original lobby-entry plan; contemporary moulded bressummer to large fireplace. To the L a cupboard with former mural stair. Projecting N (farmyard-facing) wing with early C17 stopped-chamfered ceiling beams; C19 range and slate-flagged floor. Plain late C19 stair in E section.
Reason for designation
Included for the special architectural interest of its fine C16 hall ceiling and for its group value with the former house and adjoining brewhouse at Plas Uchaf.
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