Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Date of Designation
27/05/2005
Date of Amendment
27/05/2005
Name of Property
Aberbran Fach
Location
Situated on N side of farm court at Aberbran Fach, some 150 m NW of Aberbran bridge.
History
Earlier C19 farmhouse of the Penpont estate, probably incorporating earlier work. Marked on the 1842 Tithe map as occupied by Mary Jones, with 141 acres (57.1 hectares).
Exterior
Farmhouse, whitewashed rubble stone with slate half-hipped roof, tall brick end stacks and roughcast ridge stack. Two storeys, long front with C20 metal windows replacing original, with the openings slightly enlarged, the lower openings with cambered brick heads. Four bays, the right bay spaced much further out, and ground floor with door in first bay with cambered head and door with timber lintel between second and third, also an additional window to left of first bay. Attached at right angles to left end is a single-storey outbuilding with monopitch roof and high back wall Open front infilled with whitewashed halved logs, with opening to left and door to right. Asbestos sheet roof.
Interior
Interior not inspected.
Reason for designation
Included notwithstanding altered windows as part of a particularly good whitewashed farm group of regional interest.
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