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
14873
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
27/09/1994
Date of Amendment
03/10/2003
Name of Property
Blaen y Cwm Farmhouse
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Denbighshire
Community
Llandrillo
Town
Locality
Cwm Pennant
Easting
302152
Northing
332600
Street Side
Location
The house is at the head of Cwm Pennant, at the end of a minor road which leads S from Llandrillo. Set in gardens and facing E.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Large centrally-planned farmhouse bearing a tablet 'JL 1728'. The initials are thought to relate to John Lloyd, who married Mary Jones of Cilan. The plan-form is probably little altered since the early C18, although the house was re-windowed in the Victorian period. It is shown on the tithe map of 1843.
Exterior
Symmetrical 6-window 2-storey house constructed of rubble stone under a slate roof with blue brick end stacks. Rough boulder plinth visible in places. Central entrance, the windows grouped in 3's to either side of it. Doorway with renewed half-glazed panelled door under a brick arched head, flanked by narrow small-pane side lights. Elsewhere, the windows are 12-paned horned sashes with cambered heads of narrow stone voussoirs to lower storey; flat heads with rendered surrounds above. Rough string course at 1st floor level. In the centre to the upper storey is a decorative slate tablet reading 'JL 1728'. The roof pitch has a central skylight. N gable end has former doorway, blocked with stone, offset to L; small 4-pane window to R. Lower rear wing to R, probably late C19, with renewed half-glazed panelled door with overlight to L, 2-light casement window to R, and similar casement above, all with red brick surrounds. Slate tablet over door reading 'M 1978'. The S gable end is roughcast, with door as elsewhere to L, renewed casement windows above and to R. To the L, is a further rear wing added c1950. Rear elevation cut into bank, not seen.
Interior
No access to interior at time of inspection. Recorded in 1994: The house is planned with 2 principal rooms flanking a wide central hall-way. The timber-framed partition wall on one side of the hall-way has been exposed. Massive projecting fire-place in the principal room with roughly chamfered bressumer. Both the main rooms have two spine beams, chamfered with run-out stops. Halved and pinned A-frame trusses to roof.
Reason for designation
Listed as a fine example of an early C18 large vernacular farmhouse, which has retained much of its original character.
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