History

Fine T-plan farmhouse with C16/C17 timber frame origins and early to mid C18 brick encasing; originally the Bishop's Palace and traditionally the home of Bishop Morgan, translator of the Welsh Bible.

Exterior

Symmetrical 2-storey, 3-window early C18 mainly English bond brick front with band course. Slate roof, brick end stacks and stone gable parapets with quarter round kneelers. 9-pane sash windows to 1st floor and 12-pane to ground floor with voussoirs. Central entrance with bracketed shell hood. 3-pane fanlight and fielded 6-panel door with 2 glazed panels.

Rubble ground floor to left gable end with brace plate. Modern casement to rear left over sliding sash with cambered voussoirs. Slightly higher 2-window short arm of the T-plan, dating from the early to mid C18 brick encasing, with plinth and similar detail. Slightly broader to SE end incorporating stairwell. Attic dormer with sash windows; wrapround brick band below eaves and around advanced chimney breast to rear gable end with sash windows to right only; cambered voussoirs to N side with one blocked window. One 1st floor sliding sash window to rear right; lean-to and modern extension and stone chimney breast to right gable end with blocked 2-light timber frame window.

Brick walled front garden with entrance gate piers; at SW end is a pyramidal roofed brick outbuilding.

Interior

Interior retains substantial contemporary detail. Timber framed partition walls and some reused timbers; stop chamfered beams and fireplace lintel to parlour with relocated bread oven door, also one roof-moulded beam. Stone flagged entrance hall with fielded panel doors; arch leading to stairwell has architrave composed of reused pieces of moulding (probably cornice). Early C18 dog-leg staircase with turned balusters, square newel and incised handrail. Ground floor in cross range to rear was formerly wainscoated; the panelling was bought in 1937 by National Museum of Wales (now in the Welsh Folk Museum) for £105, (consists of full height fielded panelling with fluted pilasters to fireplace and doorway). Roof trusses are slightly narrower than the present building.

Reasons for Listing

Group value with Dovecote, Barn and Garden wall.

External Links

• Cadwr Listing
• Wikidata Q17742472

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Recommended Books

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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)