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
87636
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
20/09/1977
Date of Amendment
09/03/2011
Name of Property
Gwaun-y-bara
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Caerphilly
Community
Rudry
Town
Locality
Gwaun-y-bara
Easting
318330
Northing
187972
Street Side
Location
Approximately 1.7km NNE of Rudry church, reached by private road on E side of a minor road between Rudry and Bedwas.
Description
Broad Class
Period
History
Erected probably by Roger Williams, one of the partners in Caerphilly blast furnace, c1690. It consisted
of a hall with lateral fireplace flanked by a parlour and kitchen, and with a stair in a projection at the rear.
After 1707 it became 2 dwellings, and has remained so. The cottage is on the left side. At the time of inspection the right side was vacant but was formerly used as a workshop by the local Mountain Ranger Centre. Following a fire in 2007 the Cottage was largely rebuilt but retains its earlier appearance and layout.
Exterior
Two-storey house of 5 unequal bays (the 3 central bays being the hall, the outer bays the parlour and
kitchen), with integral outshuts and gabled projection to the rear. Roughcast walls painted white. Slate
roof with brick stack to R, external stack to L and big stepped stack offset to R side behind. The doorway
is centrally placed inside a porch with a hipped stone-tile roof (lost during the fire), and has a segmental head and a half-lit boarded door. The windows to the Mountain Ranger Centre (to the right) are late C19 sashes in original openings and have contemporary brick sills. The R gable end has a small stair light to L and an inserted boarded door to R. The rear is dominated by the full-height gabled stair projection, which has late C19 3-light casements, to L of which is the large stack to the hall fireplace. The Cottage (to left) has been almost entirely rebuilt 2008-09 retaining the appearance and layout of the earlier building.
Interior
Interior of cottage entirely rebuilt following fire, c2008-9. Interior of Mountain Ranger Centre retains a stone fireplace stair to the right of the gable fireplace with a recess at mid height.
Reason for designation
Listed grade II, notwithstanding the reconstruction of Gwaun-y-bara Cottage, for special architectural interest as retaining integrity as a good example for this area of the development of the symmetrical front and centralised planning in domestic architecture in the late seventeenth century.
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