History

Later C17 or early C18 former farmhouse, formerly part of Taliaris estate, marked on 1841 Tithe Map as owned by William Peel of Taliaris, occupied by David Davies.

Exterior

Rubble stone formerly whitewashed, with C20 concrete tiles. Large E end outside stone stack with battered sides, rendered ridge stack and W end stack to service range, single ridge line. Two storey, three-window range to main house with C20 windows, casement pair, single and triple casement above, casement pair, door and four-light casement below. Plate glass. Door is half-glazed and in slate-roofed stone porch. SE rear wing with C20 S addition. Service range to left of man front is rendered with C20 details, two-storey two-window.

Interior

SE front room has massive fireplace beam to deep fireplace with bread oven under blank ogee arch. Heavy cross beams, one to centre, one over fireplace and one over timber-framed hall partition. Scribed joists running axially except along rear wall suggesting former passage or stair. Panelling on rear wall. 6-panel door with scribed mouldings to stair hall. Single flight stair with small square newels and renewed balusters, scribed joists. SW room has one large beam and another over fireplace, scribed joists. NE rear room has four cross beams. First floor has fine collar trusses with purlins alternately threaded and trenched, the collars dovetail morticed and pegged and the feet on projecting oak pads. Timber-frame partitions each side of stair-hall. Rear wing has two trusses with altered collars.

Reasons for Listing

Listed, notwithstanding exterior alterations, for fine interior timbering.

External Links

• Cadwr Listing
• Wikidata Q29492963

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Recommended Books

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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)