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
21259
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
29/01/1999
Date of Amendment
Name of Property
Gelli farmhouse and attached farm range
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Caerphilly
Community
Crumlin
Town
Locality
Trinant
Easting
320157
Northing
200490
Street Side
Location
A hilltop site just E of Pen-y-fan Pond and reached by a lane linking the main road through the industrial estate to W with the Pentwyn development at Trinant to E.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Probably C17. Attached range probably a byre with loft over, partly altered to form a kitchen to the house.
Exterior
Small farmhouse with attached farm range stepped down on the downhill side. Of limewashed stone rubble with steep pitched Welsh slate roof extending to front to form a pentice with single gabled dormer above to house, small brick end stack to right; farm range has corrugated roof to front but retains stone tiles to rear with loft dormer; battered. House frontage has 6-pane casement window beside wide doorway with timber surround, similar window to dormer; window added to attached farm range with further opening blocked to front; however farm range originally faced in opposite direction to house and retains doorways and small windows with timber lintels facing small barn across yard. Two windows, one with hood, and eaves staircase window to house rear;. rear cross passage doorway with timber lintel.
Interior
Baffle entry onto fireplace, the first bay, possibly former cross passage, of the attached range right incorporated into house as a kitchen. Original ground floor consisted of large room with deep chamfered cross beams and small stops, open fireplace now partly blocked and at other end two small rooms stepped up, probably dairy and pantry, separated by a screen. Former dairy left now incorporated into main room; a wooden screen is retained to right but is papered over. Flag floor. Steep winding stairs behind door to left of fireplace are of timber and semi-circular well is lit by a small window.
Reason for designation
Listed as an early regional farmhouse retaining most of its historic fabric including a mainly unaltered interior. Group value with nearby barn.
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