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Cwrt Bleddyn

A Grade II Listed Building in Llangybi, Monmouthshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.6541 / 51°39'14"N

Longitude: -2.9152 / 2°54'54"W

OS Eastings: 336780

OS Northings: 195431

OS Grid: ST367954

Mapcode National: GBR J9.71D2

Mapcode Global: VH7B1.FP5B

Plus Code: 9C3VM33M+JW

Entry Name: Cwrt Bleddyn

Listing Date: 18 November 1980

Last Amended: 21 February 2002

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 2668

Building Class: Domestic

ID on this website: 300002668

Location: On the west side of the road between Caerleon and Usk about 1300m south of Llangybi village.

County: Monmouthshire

Town: Pontypool

Community: Llangybi

Community: Llangybi

Traditional County: Monmouthshire

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History

A house built probably in the early/mid C17 which may have been improved in 1807 (dated) and then had a large wing added in c1880 when the existing house was completely rewindowed. It became a hotel in the mid C20 and was further extended and completely refurbished in c1988.

Exterior

The building is completely rendered and painted, presumably over local rubblestone, but the c1880 wing could be brick and the c1988 wing is probably concrete block. All the roofs are Welsh slate. The C17 block is a rectangular single depth two storey and attic one with a projecting stair wing and a kitchen wing on the left. Symmetrical three bay front with central entrance in a two storey gabled porch. The porch has an arched doorway with key stone and a plank door and a 3-light mullion lattice window above with dripmould over. Small windows at both levels in the returns. Sunk tablet above the door dated 1807 and with the inscription DUW A DIGON (God and Plenty) apparently the motto of the Nicholl family (see Cwrt Perrot) which may commemorate a marriage between the Nicholl and Bond families in that year. The porch is flanked by 4-light windows with transoms, with 3-light ones with transoms above and 2-light ones in the attic. These have ovolo moulded mullions and dripmoulds (no drips in the attic) and are all C19. Eaves gable dormers, these have wavy bargeboards and pendants as does the porch gable. The return walls have more windows on each floor as before. The left return has two 2-light ones on the ground floor, one on the first and a 2-light one in the attic, all with transoms. There is a single window on each floor to the right return. The kitchen wing has a door and a window on the ground floor and single windows on the first and attic floors, all as before. Steeply pitched roof with four large, two flue stacks with diamond set shafts; one on the end of the kitchen wing and three others on the main range, on the left gable, at the cross passage position in the centre and on the rear right wall for the hall stack. Attached to the kitchen wing at right angles is the c1880 wing. This is two storeys and three bays with large, 4-light windows with transoms below for the Oak Room and three 3-light casements without transoms or dripmoulds in large eaves gable above. Two 2-flued stacks, as before, one on the left gable and one off centre. Behind this are further wings with the hotel entrance, dating from c1988 and attached to the right rear of the main range are the extensive single storey leisure facilities also of c1988.

Interior

The C17 block has a basic two room plan with the third room in the wing behind. The entrance was into a cross passage leading to the rear stair turret but all except the doorway into the right hand room has been removed. The staircase round its solid core is considerably altered. The main beams are hollow chamfered with pyramid stops. The fireplaces are plain with oak lintels in the lesser rooms and stone in the more important ones. Principal rafter roof to the main range with three trusses in the Catherine Parr Room and one in room 34. Interesting joggled joints on at least one of the ties. The roof structure was clearly altered in the C19. The c1800 block contains the Oak Room with panelling and a buffet and overmantel in an elaborate continental renaissance style. The rest of the interiors have been considerably altered and rearranged.

Reasons for Listing

Included as an interesting early/mid C17 house which, despite alterations and additions in the C19 and C20, still retains a number of features of different periods and character.

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