Blaengavenny Farmhouse | |
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![]() "an exceptionally interesting late medieval house" | |
Type | Farmhouse |
Location | Llanvihangel Crucorney, Monmouthshire |
Coordinates | 51°52′16″N 3°00′07″W / 51.8712°N 3.0019°W / 51.8712; -3.0019 |
Built | Late medieval |
Architectural style(s) | Vernacular |
Governing body | Privately owned |
Listed Building – Grade II* | |
Official name | Blaengavenny Farmhouse |
Designated | 9 January 1956 |
Reference no. | 2003 |
Listed Building – Grade II | |
Official name | Barn at Blaengavenny Farm |
Designated | 29 January 1998 |
Reference no. | 19250 |
Listed Building – Grade II | |
Official name | Granary and malthouse at Blaengavenny Farm |
Designated | 29 January 1998 |
Reference no. | 19259 |
Blaengavenny Farmhouse, Llanvihangel Crucorney, Monmouthshire is a farmhouse of late medieval origins. It is a Grade II listed building. Its adjacent barn and granary have separate Grade II listings.
Cadw dates the earliest parts of the farmhouse to the period 1480–1520.[1] In the 17th century, the hall was sub-divided creating an upper floor, with other work being undertaken. This later building is indicated by a date stone set in the porch with a date 1621.[1] The Cadw listing record describes the farm as "exceptionally interesting with only minor alterations since 1621".[1] It remains the private farmhouse to a working farm.[2]
The architectural historian John Newman describes the farmhouse as; "largely single-storeyed, consisting of two parts.[3] Sir Cyril Fox and Lord Raglan, in the first of their three-volume study Monmouthshire Houses, give a plan showing the typical hall house layout.[4] Peter Smith, in his study Houses of the Welsh Countryside, records Blaengavenny as an example of a half timbered house, a type relatively rare in Wales and generally located, as here, proximate to the England–Wales border.[5] The farmhouse is Grade II* listed,[1] with its barn and granary having separate, Grade II listings.[6][7]