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
19/10/2000
Date of Amendment
19/10/2000
Name of Property
Castellau Ganol
Unitary Authority
Rhondda Cynon Taff
Location
Located up a track on the hillside and built parallel with the slope.
History
An early C17 3-unit long-house with hearth-passage arrangement, containing a hall, heated inner room and cow house. In the late C18 the cow house was divided to make a parlour at the uphill end. At some point the partition between hall and inner room was moved to make the hall larger and a direct entrance was made into the hall.
Exterior
Long range of one-and-a-half storeys facing E with house at N (uphill) end. Constructed of whitened rubble stone under a slate roof, the former cow house under corrugated iron. Stone stack to N end, rendered stacks to centre and L. The downhill end is constructed on substantial stone footings. The current entrance is to the R of centre and leads into the hall. It has a flat head of narrow voussoirs with a late C20 half-glazed door. This is flanked by 3-light multi-pane wooden casement windows with splayed reveals under dripstones. To the far R is a small window in a similar style (formerly with diagonally set mullions). To the L is an enlarged window under a flat brick head, in the position of the original doorway into the cow house, now parlour. The upper storey has 3 windows under the eaves, all 2-light multi-pane wooden casements. That to the L is larger and over the original doorway, the others are irregularly set. The cow house has an entrance with stable doors to the R, and an opening immediately above containing a cross window, but probably originally a loft door. Both have renewed jambs. To the L is a ventilation slit. The S gable end is slight battered and has no openings.
To the rear is a staircase outshut L of centre. It has a small front window with C20 glazing. To the L is a large C20 kitchen lean-to. There is a space between the 2 projections allowing access to the kitchen door. To the R of the staircase outshut is a small late C20 lean-to, within which is the original rear doorway into the cow house, now parlour. The cow house has a planked door to the R and a 3-light casement window to the L, both with renewed jambs.
Interior
Open-plan hall and inner room. Three deep chamfered cross beams with filleted stops partly visible. The central beam has a deep slit for an early partition which would have formed a very narrow hall. The partition was later moved to the N and the inner room used as a dairy. The N beam is boxed in and no original features are retained in the former inner room. In the hall is a large fireplace in the S wall with slightly cambered and chamfered timber lintel. Inside it on the R is a brick bakeoven. To the W is a stone staircase in a projection. To the L of the fireplace is the original doorway from the cow house, now a narrow parlour. A cobbled floor was found in here and a doorway to the W, now leading into a small lean-to, formed the original rear access into the long house. The remaining part of the cow house is now used as store room (not entered).
A corridor runs along the W side of the attic storey. The N room is entered through a timber doorway with ornate head. A small doorway in the NE corner of the room leads to loft stairs. The attic storey above the cow house is said to have trusses with carpenter's marks numbered 1 to 3, and a wall-plate tie beam, a rare feature found only in this area.
Reason for designation
Listed as a sub-medieval farm house retaining its character, the arrangement of the original long-house plan-form clearly discernible.
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