Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Date of Designation
25/10/2002
Date of Amendment
25/10/2002
Name of Property
Pen-y-bryn Farmhouse
Location
300 m north-east of St John's church, at the north-west corner of Pen-y-bryn farmyard.
Broad Class
Agriculture and Subsistence
History
Possibly C18, with C20 re-roofing, rear extension and porch. Formerly a Wynnstay Estate farm.
Exterior
A two-storey two-unit symmetrical farmhouse in axe-dressed uncoursed stonework, painted white, with a hipped slate roof with tiled ridges and hips; brickwork mid chimney. Modern central semi-glazed door and porch. Small-pane windows: the upper windows are of two lights with iron opening casements. Mullion window at left below, mullion and transom window at right below, also with iron opening casements.
Rear extensions part stone, part brickwork, with slate lean-to roof; part concrete blockwork with flat roof; modern door and windows.
Interior
Symmetrical two-unit lobby-entrance plan with large back-to-back fireplaces. On the bressummer of the fireplace in the room to the right is a scratched circular feature with six petals, a feature generally regarded as an evil-eye talisman, not uncommon in sub-mediaeval houses locally.
Reason for designation
A late-vernacular farmhouse which has retained its character notwithstanding some alterations, and forms a group with the farm range facing it across the farmyard.
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