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
85510
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
27/01/2006
Date of Amendment
27/01/2006
Name of Property
Gweckery Farmhouse
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Monmouthshire
Community
Llanarth
Town
Locality
Great Oak
Easting
338300
Northing
209789
Street Side
Location
The farm is on the west side of the hamlet of Great Oak, on the south-east side of the lane that skirts the Llanarth parkland. The house is alongside its farm-buildings, its garden enclosed to the front by cast-iron railings on low wall with stone piers.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
A Llanarth estate farm. The house is designed in an Arts and Crafts idiom, probably c1920. Although there is the suggestion of earlier materials incorporated into its structure, both house and farm-buildings seem to represent a single, integrated building campaign, perhaps entirely replacing an earlier farm. The house and its domestic outbuilding are linked stylistically to other houses and cottages on the estate.
Exterior
Small farmhouse in Arts and Crafts style. Random rubble of informal polychrome character; some brickwork incorporated as dressings; later pebble-dash on one gable wall. Fine graded stone-tiled roof on generously overhanging eaves which have exposed rafter-ends and cast-iron guttering. Axial and end wall stacks with drip courses, the gable stack projecting and with offsets. One-and-a-half storeys, broad 2-bay plan. The front elevation has doorway towards centre in lean-to porch supported on timber posts; boarded and nailed door. Flanking single light casement windows, then outer windows - 3-lights to right, 2 to left. All have stone sills and lintels with hoodmoulds, and small panes. 3 dormers within the roof above, each with 2-light casement window. Rear elevation has doorway towards right in lean-to porch carried on timber posts, with boarded split door within, 2x2-light casement windows to its left, with stone sills and lintels with hoodmoulds. 2-light casement window in gabled dormer within roof at centre.
Interior
Not inspected.
Reason for designation
Listed as an exceptionally good example of Arts and Crafts building, displaying strong, well-preserved architectural character in its use of materials and its expressive planning. One of a series of buildings in this general idiom on the Llanarth estate.
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