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
83157
Building Number
Grade
II*
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
30/09/2004
Date of Amendment
30/09/2004
Name of Property
Outbuilding to north of Church Farmhouse
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Vale of Glamorgan
Community
Rhoose
Town
Barry
Locality
Porthkerry
Easting
308174
Northing
166700
Street Side
Location
In the garden on the north side of Church Farmhouse.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
This is a detached kitchen which is probably contemporary with the main farmhouse and is thus early C16. It was converted to a bakehouse probably in the mid C19 when the house stopped being the Rectory and became a farmhouse. It also had what is probably a donkey stable added to the north gable at that time. It was then converted again to a wash-house in c1935, probably when the present tenanted family took over the farm. There has been no alteration to it since apart from re-roofing. The barn is mentioned in the 1636 Glebe Terrier. This is a very rare survival in such close proximity to a complete medieval rectory. Another example of this building type survives at Flemingston Court in St. Athan Community (qv).
Exterior
Built of local limestone rubble with large, carefully laid quoins, and a dressed stone doorway. The main elevation is on the west and has a central doorway with dressed and chamfered jambs and a 2-centred chamfered arch. There are indications of possible small windows or, at least, vents in the walling on either side of the doorway but everything is blocked and difficult to decipher. Moderately pitched roof covered in profiled steel sheeting. The right gable wall was partly rebuilt in the mid C19 to incorporate the bakehouse chimney and this is a redbrick one above the ridge line. The left gable is covered by a lower, possibly donkey, stable with boarded door and dressed vent to right. There is a straight joint between this and the barn. Corrugated iron roof leaning-to the taller back wall. The rear wall of the barn is plain apart from a central window which appears to have been put in in the mid C19, but the C16 kitchen must have had windows of some sort.
Interior
The interior retains its large stone fireplace, and this was adapted when it became the farm bakehouse in the mid C19. The fireplace contains the brick built washing copper which was added when the building became a wash-house in c1930. The roof structure has been largely replaced.
Reason for designation
Included and highly graded for its importance as a late medieval detached kitchen and its group value with the adjacent and contemporary Church Farmhouse.
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