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
2624
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
04/03/1952
Date of Amendment
18/07/2001
Name of Property
Former Farmhouse about 20m to the north of Ty-Cooke Farmhouse
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Monmouthshire
Community
Goetre Fawr
Town
Pontypool
Locality
Goetre
Easting
330877
Northing
205263
Street Side
W
Location
Immediately north of Ty-Cooke Farnmhouse across the entrance yard.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
A house dating from c1600, now converted to agricultural use. It appears to be a 'Regional ' 2-room plan house of RCAHMW type A. It was demoted to agricultural use at some stage, probably not when the new farmhouse (qv Ty--Cooke) was built in c1710, but in the C19 or later as the re-windowing could suggest continued domestic use.
Exterior
The house is constructed of local sandstone rubble with a corrugated metal sheet roof. It is a one and a half storey two cell single depth house with two windows, one surviving with reserved chamfer mullions, the others later, angled drips. Near-central door with shaped and decorated head. Small garret window at the left hand end. The front had a late C17 gabled dormer recorded by Fox and Raglan on the upper floor but this was already removed before their publication in 1954 and the stone slate roof may have also been removed at this time. Stone ridge stack, once the gable end. The rear elevation was not seen at resurvey but is said to retain two 2-light windows with wooden diamond mullions, these were recorded by Fox and Raglan but it is not known if they are still in situ. They also record a gable window in the right hand gable but this cannot be seen because of the in-line extension of the building.
Interior
The interior was not inspected at resurvey, but it is said to retain stopped and chamfered principal beams and a stone spiral stair adjacent to the wide gable fireplace. A remarkable feature is the continuous timber lintel over the door and both windows in the front. Fox and Raglan recorded that the interior once had a large and two small rooms but the stud-and-panel partitions were long gone. They also record a sleeping loft and an upper cruck roof, but it is not known how much of this survives.
Reason for designation
Included as an important c1600 farmhouse and as part of an important farm group.
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