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
22796
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
31/01/2000
Date of Amendment
31/01/2000
Name of Property
Mill building at Lower Llancayo Farm
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Monmouthshire
Community
Llanarth
Town
Usk
Locality
Llancayo
Easting
336735
Northing
202990
Street Side
Location
Situated at SW of farm complex at Lower Llancayo, fronting onto the rear of Llancayo House.
Description
Broad Class
Agriculture and Subsistence
Period
History
Earlier C19 granary and mill building, part of the estate farm of Llancayo House. Marked on 1842 Tithe map.
Exterior
Mill building, rubble stone with graded slate hipped roof. Three-storey, five-window range, the ground floor a semi-basement with lunette lights above plinth, two each side of door. Glazing missing. Door has been enlarged to right, with timber lintel immediately under first floor door. Two cambered-headed windows each side of door to first floor. Upper floor has large centre loading door and 2 square windows under eaves each side. Basement lunettes and first floor openings have red sandstone voussoirs with keystones. End walls have 2-window range of similar windows, first floor door to E end left with brick and stone steps up. Rear obscured by modern barn, 4-window range with similar openings to first and second floors.
Interior
Oak beams and joists. Basement has 4 heavy beams and 4 iron posts. Red brick rear arches to windows. First floor has 3 beams, one removed, and some iron wheels and shafts for belt-driven machinery. Upper floor is plastered with remains of shafts for hoist. Loft floor above in roof.
Reason for designation
Included as a semi-industrial farm building of unusual scale and architectural character, a significant survival of the early C19 agricultural improvements on the Llancayo Estate.
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