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.
Date of Designation
15/03/1996
Date of Amendment
15/03/1996
Name of Property
Cwm Celyn Farmhouse
Unitary Authority
Monmouthshire
Location
Situated on the north side of a by-lane reached off the A 4042 and over the canal. The farmhouse is set above and at right angles to the farmyard.
Exterior
History: Late C16/early C17 farmhouse with C19 and modern alterations.
Exterior: Single-storey and attic colourwashed rubble farmhouse with slate roof and gable-end chimney to downhill end. Gabled dormers and modern porch. Horned small-pane sash to left of boarded door with glazed panel and small-pane casement to right; cambered brick arched heads. Single-storey service range set back to left with brick chimney and casements under timber lintels; originally a window flanked by two doors (one remaining). Rubble wall divides house from farmyard.
Interior: Not accessible at time of inspection (Autumn 1995) but recorded by Fox and Raglan and the RCAHMW as retaining a stud and panel partition to the hall, a 'Tudor' doorhead and Wern Hir stop-chamfered beams.
Listed for its special interest a small sub-medieval farmhouse with surviving historic detail.
Reference: Sir C Fox & Lord Raglan, Monmouthshire Houses, Part II, p.116, (2nd edition 1994).
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