Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
22520
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
22/10/1999
Date of Amendment
22/10/1999
Name of Property
Pen-y-van including attached range to left
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Caerphilly
Community
Risca
Town
Locality
Pontymister
Easting
325705
Northing
189806
Street Side
Location
On the hillside roughly equidistant between the canal and the main valley thoroughfare, near the E community boundary, the cottage fronting a flagged courtyard.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Probably mid C19. Does not show on Risca Tithe Map of 1843. First edition OS map 1886 appears to show this farm as Tyn y berllan, with Pen y Fan the name of a building nearer the road.
Exterior
A small farmhouse and attached barn/byre range. Of limewashed rubble with Welsh slate roof and brick end stacks. Simple 2 window frontage with central doorway; small 3/3 pane casements with stone sills to first floor directly under eaves; larger though not matching to ground floor with shallow hoods, not original; boarded door. Boulder footings and stone bench outside right front window. Attached range in two builds has double doors and ventilation slits near house and other openings with timber lintels; gable end with loft opening partly renewed in blockwork. To rear end barn unit has pantiled roof, outshuts to cottage with small replaced ground floor window and rooflight.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included for its rare architectural interest as a small family farmstead of regional character, little altered externally.
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