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
3026
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
18/05/1995
Date of Amendment
18/05/1995
Name of Property
Llwyn Rhyddid
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Vale of Glamorgan
Community
Pendoylan
Town
Locality
Hensol
Easting
304164
Northing
177769
Street Side
Location
Substantial detached farmhouse set within landscaped parkland with serpentine driveway, now sub-divided into two dwellings. Mid C19 farmyard ranges to east.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Formerly the principle farmhouse to the Hensol estate which was let by the Talbot family to Mr Samuel Richardson, High Sheriff of Glamorgan in 1798. Richardson was a great agricultural improver and it is likely that this commodious farmhouse dates from Richardson's occupancy.
Exterior
A single two storey range, of limewashed rubble elevations beneath a hipped and slated roof with massive, single, rendered, axial chimneystack, with modern pots. Front elevation of asymmetrical form with five windows at first floor level comprising four over eight sashes, without horns. At ground floor level the original entrance doorway is offset to the right hand side by one bay with a second doorway at the extreme left hand side. Both doors are modern. Three sash windows at ground floor level. Two of which are original eight over eight, without horns, whilst the remainder is a later replacement. The rear elevation has an orderly, yet asymmetric arrangement of a miscellany of sash window types in original openings. All window openings have simple gauged brick arches over. The rear elevation has four doorways, one blocked . Two of the doorways appear to be original whilst the others appear to have been formed from earlier window openings.
Interior
At ground floor level a suite of three reception rooms with windows to front, together with original kitchen at the southern end, allegedly retaining blocked in range. All rooms retain original raised and fielded six panelled doors and door-cases. Flagged floors to all ground floor rooms. Original staircase of early nineteenth century date remains, of canted dog-leg form with reeded newel post and cannon-shaped balusters. the hallway retains a substantial reeded cornice.
Reason for designation
Listed grade II as a good example of an early C19th gentry farmhouse of unaltered and unextended plan, with important historic links to the Hensol estate.
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