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
13809
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
19/05/1975
Date of Amendment
10/10/2001
Name of Property
Fynnon Wen Public House
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Cardiff
Community
Llanishen
Town
Cardiff
Locality
Thornhill Road
Easting
316520
Northing
182655
Street Side
E
Location
Set back from the road opposite Thornhill Crematorium and surrounded by landscaping and a car park.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Farmhouse of c1700 formerly known as Ysgubor-wen, converted to a Public House in the late C20. It was originally a 2-unit direct-entry farmhouse of 2-and-a-half-storeys, with fireplaces to each end and cross-corner fireplace stairs to the NW. A post and panel partition on the 1st floor has been recorded. The building is now much altered, and few of the original features remain.
Exterior
Two-storey 3-window front facing S. Thick rubble stone walls with battered bases, now colour-washed. Replaced slate roof, late C20 red brick end stack to L. Lean-to stone porch to centre; full-height entrance with no door, side benches internally. Flat-headed window openings with rendered surrounds, those to ground floor incorporating earlier hoodmoulds. The windows are late C20 wooden casements with glazing bars, except for a top-hung window to R of entrance; 3-light window to L of entrance. Upper storey has small single light to centre flanked by 2-light window to L and 3-light window to R. Large late C20 red brick block adjoining W gable end; similar single-storey block to E gable end. Further late C20 range against rear.
Interior
A late C20 half-glazed boarded door leads into the Public House. Open-plan interior with bar to rear. Plain wooden cross-beams replace the original chamfered and stopped beams. Doorways have been cut through the E and W walls to later additions. Stone fireplace to W end which appears to be partly original; replaced timber lintel and domed bake-oven of brick and stone in L jamb.
Reason for designation
Listed as a rare survival of a former sub-medieval farmhouse in Cardiff, notwithstanding extensive late C20 alterations and additions.
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