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
25536
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
18/07/2001
Date of Amendment
18/07/2001
Name of Property
Gelliargwellt Uchaf Farmhouse
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Caerphilly
Community
Gelligaer
Town
Locality
Llancaiach
Easting
312479
Northing
196439
Street Side
S
Location
Situated amidst farmland and adjacent to a quarry, reached by a farm track from the main road.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Porch dated 1778 but signs of fabric alteration, plan, staircase imply an earlier origin. Davies cites records from early C15. Tithe Map of 1842 and First Edition OS Map of 1875 show the current T-shaped plan and the latter shows the garden at front as now.
Exterior
Large farmhouse. T-shaped plan, a 5-unit offset entry house comprising hall and parlour with back-to-back fireplaces sharing a central chimney, further heated room at end W, a service room at end E, and a rear wing containing a staircase with small room adjacent on one side; later kitchen on the other. Built of rendered stone rubble with Welsh slate roof and paired central ridge stacks. Garden frontage has centre right gabled porch with datestone and face corbel above a round arched entrance,stone benches inside; an unequally spaced 4-window range - 2 on each side: cambered-headed to first floor, former sashes replaced with UPVC, more varied openings to ground floor also with replaced glazing.
Interior
Entered from left rear, the end left room is a former dairy/pantry with moulded slab, flag floor, chamfered beams with hooks; this leads to the first of the main inner rooms, the former hall, which has direct entry from front porch, stone floor, 3 high cross beams with shallow chamfers and stops, C20 fireplace inserted into former large open fireplace; steps down to lobby behind central fireplace which leads to other main room with replaced fireplace; further end room off. Lobby also gives access to stairs to rear which have shallow treads and turned balusters, dining room and kitchen adjacent. First floor rooms retain 6-panelled doors, high boxed-in beams; end room formerly used as cheese room. Wide boarded door to attic where A-frame roof trusses are visible and 3 rows of trenched purlins.
Reason for designation
Listed notwithstanding replacement windows as a large regional farmhouse retaining its historic plan and fabric. Group value with beebole range in garden.
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