26832

 

II  

Designated  

06/08/2002  

06/08/2002  

Old house, with attached byre and barn at Trebanog Fach  

 

Rhondda Cynon Taff  

Hirwaun  

 

Pont Pren  

294437  

207377  

 

Approximately 1km SW of Pont Pren and reached by private road on the W side of the A4059.  

Domestic  

 

An early C17 house probably built by Rees Williams of Trebanog who died in 1621. It comprised a hall and unheated parlour. A byre was later added to the S gable end, enclosing the original entrance to the house, causing a new a new entrance to be inserted in the W wall of the house. A barn with later granary were subsequently added to the N gable end of the house. These 3 ranges are shown in-line on the 1840 Tithe map. The house ceased to be occupied when a new detached farmhouse was built in the mid C20.  

A house of 2 storeys with attic, with a byre at the downhill (S) end, and barn at the uphill (N) end. The W side of the house is roughcast, the E side whitened rubble stone with exposed boulder footings. Windows are no longer glazed but most retain wooden frames. A steep roof of replaced slate has a reduced stone stack to the downhill gable end. The W side has an inserted doorway to the R (where the shadow of a former gabled porch is visible in the render) with a hall window to its L (probably C19 and originally with a sash window) and an original C17 parlour window further L with drip stone. The upper storey has 2 windows beneath the eaves of which the R-hand, above the doorway, has a 2-light casement. The rear (E) of the house has 2 doorways in the lower storey. The doorway on the L side, originally a window, retains a C17 hood mould abutting the outshut to its L. The doorway to the R is later and has brick jambs. Both have boarded doors. In the upper storey is an inserted or enlarged window below the eaves. At the L end is the outshut housing the stair, which has a small window. The lower rubble-stone byre has a concrete tile roof, and openings with wooden lintels. Its W wall is continuous with the wall of the house but separated by a vertical joint. To the L side is a full-height doorway with split boarded door, a central former doorway has been converted to a window, and a further doorway is at the R end. The E side has 3 doorways, retaining boarded doors to the outer sides, and a 2-light window to the R. The barn is rubble stone with a galvanised metal roof, and is narrower and lower than the house. On the W side is a central full-height doorway with replaced boarded doors. It is flanked by former loft openings, also with replaced boarded doors. Further L is a straight joint indicating that the granary at the upper end is later. The granary has a loft doorway with boarded door in its gable end, reached by external steps. The E side has a central doorway narrowed with blockwork, and full-height doorway to the granary with double doors.  

The original plan of the house is retained. The hall has a joist-beam ceiling with run-out stops to the joists, and a fireplace with timber lintel. Posts survive of a former screen between the hall and a parlour and pantry at the uphill end. To the R of the hall fireplace is a boarded door, with round-arched doorway from the byre, the original entrance to the house. On the L side of the fireplace is a doorway to the stair that retains its original wooden Tudor surround with bar stops. The original stone stair is partly replaced with wooden treads. A steep stair from upper storey to attic also survives. The attic floor has been removed, leaving the upper storey open to the roof. This is 3 bays with collar-beam trusses, although one of the collars has been removed. The uphill gable end has an upper-storey window now opening into the barn.  

Listed as a rare well-preserved early C17 house retaining original plan form and detail, with attached byre and barn characteristic of upland Breconshire.