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
84994
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
13/08/1986
Date of Amendment
05/03/1999
Name of Property
'New Mansion' at Ruperra Home Farm
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Caerphilly
Community
Rudry
Town
Locality
Ruperra
Easting
323050
Northing
186383
Street Side
Location
On open hillside E of Ruperra Home Farm, and reached by a farm road on W side of minor road between Michaelston-y-Fedw and Draethen.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
A small late-medieval storeyed house consisting of a first-floor hall and solar, with kitchen and service rooms below. The house was gutted in the C18 to make an agricultural building. The S side faced a yard and had a cattle shed added at its W end, which is now demolished.
Exterior
Two-storey former house of battered rubble-stone walls and corrugated asbestos-cement roof. The front, facing a former yard, is on the S side and has a wall attached to its L side. A central inserted cow-house doorway is under a timber lintel. To the L is the shadow of a former gabled cattle shed, in which is an inserted doorway with timber surround and lintel. To the R of the central doorway is an added vent strip under a timber lintel, and a doorway under an added concrete lintel further R.
In the R gable end is an external stack cut down below apex and partly corbelled at 1st-floor level. A small blocked window in a (possibly re-used) dressed stone surround and lintel is upper L. The L gable end has a 1st-floor stack (possibly originally on corbels) cut down below apex, to L of which is a 2-light solar window with cusped heads. In the lower storey are blocked windows to former service rooms L and R.
The rear wall has a central cow-house doorway aligned with the front, partly blocked with rubble stone and with an inserted boarded door. To the L of the doorway is a blocked kitchen window with relieving arch. Offset to the L above the central doorway is a boarded loft door under a timber lintel and with brick jambs. A blocked solar window is at upper R.
Interior
The plain 4-bay tie-beam roof is C18, after it ceased to be a dwelling. In the R gable end is a segmental-headed kitchen fireplace in the lower storey with an added brick bread oven. In the upper storey is the hall fireplace offset to the L under a timber lintel. Part of a loft survives on cross beams. A ledge in the wall shows that the solar was at a slightly higher level to the L end. In the service rooms below the solar the blocked windows have deep splays.
Reason for designation
An important example of a late medieval house retaining early detail despite its conversion for farm use.
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