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
2610
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
18/11/1980
Date of Amendment
16/10/2001
Name of Property
Glanusk Farmhouse
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Monmouthshire
Community
Goetre Fawr
Town
Pontypool
Locality
Chainbridge
Easting
334334
Northing
205701
Street Side
N
Location
About 300m west of Chainbridge on the road to Goetre.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Mainly probably later C17, much rebuilt in later C20.
Exterior
Symmetrical. Cement rendered. 3 storeys. 3 windows; large 3-light mullioned window to right on ground floor, casements above (wooden transmullioned on first storey). Modern hipped roof to open porch. Brick chimneys at left at rear and right-hand gable, over massive stacks, perhaps pre-C18. Slate roof with overhang a Victorian renewal. Rear with long catslide roof enclosing tall gabled stair tower of rubble construction with paired casements under timber lintols.
Interior
Retains C17 staircase with solid wooden treads radiating from newel.
Reason for designation
Included on list, notwithstanding modern alterations, because of its C17 origins including a fine turnpike staircase.
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