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
81942
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
23/10/2003
Date of Amendment
23/10/2003
Name of Property
Glantanat Uchaf
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Llangedwyn
Town
Locality
Glantanat
Easting
313783
Northing
324212
Street Side
Location
About 100 m south of the River Tanat and to east of the B4580. Walled enclosure facing farmyard at north side.
Description
Broad Class
Agriculture and Subsistence
Period
History
A large farmhouse of possibly C16 origins, with some timber framing visible on the south side and a corner chimney, truncated, on its east face. The house has a full-height service wing, apparently contemporary, to the north incorporating a large lateral chimney. Later abutting lower wing and two lean-to extensions to the south.
The Tithe Survey shows Glantanat Uchaf to have been a farm of the Bonnor Estate, tenanted in 1839 by Jane Morris as 'house, building, fold and garden' with 124 acres (50.22 hectares).
Exterior
A farmhouse of 2½ storeys, the main range lying east/west with a crosswing extending north at the east end, giving it an L plan. The main elevation to the north, plus the west and north elevations of the cross-wing, are rendered, possibly over timber framing; a small area of close-studded timber framing appears on the rear (south) elevation of the main range in the top east corner. Otherwise the house is now in local shaley stonework, quasi-coursed, including later extensions on the south side. Regularly coursed restored slate roof with a tile ridge. Large mid-chimney to the main range, rendered and whitened. Large lateral chimney on the east side of the north wing, in stone, passing through a gabled transition of dormer form. The sides of this chimney are markedly battered. A third chimney at the south east corner of the main range has been truncated and roofed integrally with the south slope.
1½-storey south wing in stonework with old render; small slate roof. Stone lean-to at its south end. Wider lean-to partly of light timber construction against the west part of the main south wall.
The north-facing main front of the house has been refenestrated in small-pane windows with metal glazing bars of late C19 type. Three-light windows to left of the main door, aligned vertically; another over the door; two-light similar window to right below. The adjacent west elevation of the cross-wing has a door at right, a three-light window at left and a two-light window above, not aligned. The gable of this cross-wing has a small-pane timber mullion and transom window of three lights. A special feature of the north front is the main door, in a moulded projecting frame of some massiveness, the inner edge of which is ovolo-moulded; boarded and nail-studded door at least 1050 mm wide with ornamental wrought iron hinges.
Two windows and an attic light aligned centrally in the east gable of the main range; four other small windows randomly disposed in the adjacent wing.
Interior
Ground storey plan of baffle-entry type with hall and parlour fireplaces opposite entrance. The hall has chamfered beams with tongue-stops.
Reason for designation
A large farmhouse, among the best preserved of the fine Tanat Valley farmhouses of the C16/17.
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