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
17650
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
15/03/1996  
Date of Amendment
15/03/1996  
Name of Property
The Steps Farmhouse  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Monmouthshire  
Community
Abergavenny  
Town
 
Locality
Llanwenarth  
Easting
327212  
Northing
215519  
Street Side
 
Location
Prominently situated on an elevated site above the main road and reached from a lane to the east; farmyard ranges to west.  

Description


Broad Class
Domestic  
Period
 

History
 

Exterior
History: Probably C17 origins with earlier C19 remodelling and enlargement and c1880's alterations. Exterior: L-shaped farmhouse evolved out of a sub-medieval range set end on to the hillside to west and late-Georgian cross-range added across the slope to the east. Contemporary with this enlargement the earlier range was raised. 2-storeys with colourwashed rubble elevations, slate roofs and stone chimney stacks heightened in red brick. The front facing across the Usk valley is of 2 + 2-windows with hornless small-pane sashes, 16-pane to 1st floor and 20-pane below. The right hand part has a later doorway offset to the left with boarded door and trellised porch. Some large lintels. The earlier range has a gently battered base and is said to have originally had a chimney breast; also a now blocked doorway to the side facing the farmyard. Casement windows and later alterations at rear which has deep, almost catslide, lean-to. Interior: Not accessible at time of inspection (July 1995). Group value with associated farmyard buildings.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
 

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