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
14070
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
30/10/1972
Date of Amendment
08/09/1995
Name of Property
Walterstone Fach
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Vale of Glamorgan
Community
Llancarfan
Town
Locality
Walterstone
Easting
306921
Northing
171206
Street Side
Location
Set on the E side of the Walterstone hamlet to the NE of Llancarfan village, NE of Trewallter Fawr.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Substantial farmhouse of C16 date possibly two units which were incorporated into one by a central linking cell, in the C18(?).
Exterior
2 storey, 4 bays, limewashed rubble elevations under thatched roof with eyebrows. Three stacks, 2 gable, 1 axial, rendered, painted white. Modern timber fenestration to all elevations in original openings. Substantial linked modern 2 storey extension at SW end. Front elevation has 3 casements to ground floor with square stair window. To first floor, four 2-light casements, 3 beneath eyebrows. Rear elevation has six 2-light casements to ground floor with 4-centred dressed stone doorway to SW end. Two casements at NW end built into large blocked up opening. First floor has seven 2-light casements.
Interior
Three cell plan to ground floor. The SW and NE cell appears to date from the later C16. The SW cell has a large open fire with replaced timber bressumer at S end, cross corner stair rising on the N side. This stair has a cross slab roof and polished limestone treads accessed via a low 4-centred timber doorway, with modern door. There are four exposed beams with hollow chamfers and hollow stop with fillet. At the N end is a plank and mountain screen with small inner room on N side. On S side of inner room is a stone 4-centred doorway. E of hall has three exposed beams with broad chamfers and broached stops. Large open fire at E end has cross corner stair on N side without outshut accessed via a 3-centred timber doorway with plain chamfer. First floor has longitudinal corridor running E to W on N side. Exposed principal afters to collar level, some with angled curved feet and plain chamfers. Other roof details not visible.
Reason for designation
Listed grade II as a thatched vernacular farmhouse of C16 origin retaining significant internal features, particularly the plank and mountain screen.
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