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.
Date of Designation
31/01/1953
Date of Amendment
26/05/1995
Name of Property
Glascoed
Location
Located back from the road, behind its farm buildings, on a platform site at right angles to the slope of the hill.
History
The property was at various times owned by the Vaughan and later the Rocke families.
Exterior
Farmhouse of the early C17, timber framed with whitewashed walls and slate roof. 'T'-plan consisting of a two-bay main range with entrance lobby against the west gable stack, and a one-bay rear block.
Timber framing close studded with mid-wall bressumer. Four-panelled boarded door in W bay, and gabled hood. Two light windows with overlights, the windows having moulded architraves. Bracketed E gable, with decorative raking struts to queen posts, and 2 tiers of purlins. W gable end of stone, with the main stack, and a large external stack with 4 offsets, capped in brick, to the E gable.
Interior
Lobby entry to main living room which has ceiling divided by chamfered cross beams into 6 compartments, the rear bays now divided off. Panelled door against front wall to inner room at E end.
Reason for designation
Listed as a well-preserved house of the early C17.
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