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
26995
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
10/10/2002
Date of Amendment
10/10/2002
Name of Property
Lidmore Farmhouse
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Vale of Glamorgan
Community
Wenvoe
Town
Locality
Dyffryn
Easting
309220
Northing
170320
Street Side
Location
Part of a small group of buildings S of Dyfrryn, E of Northcliff, including the former Lidmore Mill
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Farmhouse probably with an early C18 origin refurbished in C19. Also known as Lydmore. Former farm ranges on other side of lane, shown on Tithe Map of 1842, now converted to dwellings.
Exterior
Farmhouse. Walls of limewashed rubble, Welsh slate roof with 4 corniced brick ridge and end stacks. Two wings, the narrower downhill and set back at each elevation. Two storeys. Main frontage faces garden. This has a 3-window range of sashes to the left main unit: 2 to left (plus one smaller to ground floor) and one to right of a gabled porch; this is of rock-faced stone with brick dressings, including moulded brick cambered arch, flag floor and boarded door. First floor windows are 6/6-pane sashes with cambered heads; 4/8-pane to ground floor: set back wing to right has similar first floor sash and ground floor casement. To rear the main range has a rear single storey lean-to with small windows and doorway in return. To left the downhill unit has a first floor sash, plain ground floor doorway with to right a small deep-set rectangular window with mullions and 8-pane casement adjacent.
Interior
Interior believed to retain open fireplaces in main wing and some chamfered cross beams and exposed joists.
Reason for designation
Listed as a pre-1840 farmhouse which has retained its character.
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