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.
Date of Designation
04/07/1975
Date of Amendment
25/05/1999
Name of Property
Hendredenny Hall
Unitary Authority
Caerphilly
Community
Penyrheol, Trecenydd and Energlyn
Locality
Hendredenny Park
Location
Located in the centre of Hendredenny Park housing estate, approached off the lane which leads from Penyrheol to Groeswen.
History
Built in 1799 by Rowland Williams on the site of an earlier farmhouse. Shown at the centre of a small park and approached by a tree-lined avenue on the tithe map of 1841. The park is now a housing estate.
Exterior
Symmetrical 3-storey, 3-bay Georgian house. Roughcast, with hipped swept pan-tiled roof, and wide rendered end stacks. Central round-arched doorway with moulding and keystone. Inset C20 double doors under fan-light. Flanking windows are tripartite horned sashes with flat heads and stone sills. Twelve-pane horned sashes to 1st floor and similar 6-pane sashes to 2nd floor. Two-storey lean-to to rear.
Interior
No access to interior at time of inspection (26/2/99).
Reason for designation
Listed as a good example of a Georgian house representing gentrification of the countryside. A relatively rare building type in this area.
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