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
80860
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
17/11/1987
Date of Amendment
03/02/2003
Name of Property
Outside kitchen at Glyn Bran Farm
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Torfaen
Community
Upper Cwmbran
Town
Cwmbran
Locality
Upper Cwmbran
Easting
327390
Northing
197000
Street Side
E
Location
Situated just N of Glyn Bran Farmhouse.
Description
Broad Class
Period
History
Small C17 or early C18 detached outbuilding, presumably an outside kitchen.
Exterior
Outbuilding, former outside kitchen, rubble stone with slate roof and stone right gable end chimney with weathercoursing. Side wall has very large rubble buttress against left side and window to right with lintel and stonework above lost. Left gable end is altered in late C19 or earlier C20, gable open with yellow brick in angles, ground floor is stone with doorway to right, the right jamb narrowed in yellow brick. Right end wall has large external chimneybreast with 3 offsets: 2 square steps and one chamfered. Window blocked in brick to left.
Interior
Beams of loft floor. One tie-beam and collar pegged truss. Blocked fireplace with timber lintel, recess to left in corner.
Reason for designation
Included as a surviving example of the small outside kitchens once typical of regional farmhouses.
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