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
3144
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
22/01/1981
Date of Amendment
22/10/2003
Name of Property
Ponthir House Inn
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Torfaen
Community
Ponthir
Town
Newport
Locality
Ponthir
Easting
333036
Northing
192639
Street Side
NE
Location
In Ponthir village on the NE side of the B4236 between Stokes Drive and Candwr Road.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
Inn dated 1710 on plaque. Early C18 single storey and attic house to two-room plan with centre passage, now opened out within. There is said to have been a stone spiral stair by ?left end-wall fireplace and timber stairs to right of right end fireplace.
Exterior
Inn, white painted rubble stone with concrete plain tiles to roofs and small white-painted rendered brick end stacks. One storey and attic with three eaves dormers with C20 leaded casement-pair windows and plain tiled sides and gable fronts. Four-bay ground floor offset to right. Centre half-glazed door with large casement pair windows to centre left and centre right and further window to right (aligned with dormer above). The centre left window has thin stone hoodmould and date plaque IGM (or IGH) 1710 above. The door and centre right window are set within a lean-to tiled open 2-bay porch with stone side walls and one iron post to centre. Windows are renewed leaded casement pairs larger than those in dormers. Right end wall has one tiny stair light. A rear wing to rear left is old with low outshut against road continued as single storey range. One dormer and removed end stack. C20 infill to rear right, c. 1980.
Interior
Interior much opened out. Rough beams of medium size, 5 to left room and 5 to right, some chamfering. Rear wing has five thinner beams, slightly chamfered.
Reason for designation
Included as early C18 vernacular building with some surviving detail.
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