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Tir Pengam including attached barn and byre range to S

A Grade II Listed Building in Gelligaer, Caerphilly

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.6708 / 51°40'14"N

Longitude: -3.2308 / 3°13'51"W

OS Eastings: 314978

OS Northings: 197606

OS Grid: ST149976

Mapcode National: GBR HW.5S28

Mapcode Global: VH6DD.Y8BJ

Plus Code: 9C3RMQC9+8M

Entry Name: Tir Pengam including attached barn and byre range to S

Listing Date: 18 July 2001

Last Amended: 18 July 2001

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 25535

Building Class: Domestic

ID on this website: 300025535

Location: On the W slope of the Rhymney Valley close to the railway and E of the village of Pen-pedair-heol, surrounded by farmland and reached by a short drive from the road.

County: Caerphilly

Community: Gelligaer

Community: Gelligaer

Locality: Pen-pedair-heol

Built-Up Area: Blackwood

Traditional County: Glamorgan

Tagged with: Farmhouse

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History

Probably early to mid C19. Also formerly known as Greenmeadow: appears thus on First Edition OS map surveyed 1877 but as Tir Pengam on 2nd Edition 1919. Does not appear on Gelligaer Tithe Map of 1842. Part of Pontypool Park Estate. RCAHMW only lists now demolished nearby 'direct entry' cottages c 1800 though a house is locally thought to have been on this site in C18.

Exterior

Small farmstead comprising a farmhouse, attached barn, attached cross range containing byre, stable and pigsty. Farmhouse is of stone white-painted with a Welsh slate roof, boarded eaves and yellow brick end stack; rendered gable end. Windows are unusual multipane casements, the glass very small quarries, with hoodmould, surround and sills painted blue. 2 window frontage, the upper storey close under eaves; central porch with basket-arched doorway, stone seats and half-margin-glazed inner door; lean-to right wing has similar smaller ground floor window. Attached to end is the whitened rubble wall with flat coping and iron gate with large stone jamb which forms the traditional front garden enclosure. Similar window to 2-bay side elevation and another remodelled. Rear elevation has a number of extensions but retains a similar casement window and a central Gothick arched window at first floor. Barn range of limewashed rubble is attached to left (S) side of house and has Welsh slate roof to front, stone tiles to rear; central double doors, taller to rear and with a small gabled hood; long narrow ventilation slits each side with an owl hole in gable end. Lean-to end wing accommodates stable. Lower cross wing on E-facing downhill side has corner doorway to front right, blocked left, wider to rear. At downhill gable end is a lean-to pigsty, the yard enclosed by a rectangular wall.

Interior

Interior of house probably originally had front entrance into hallway with rooms each side - or direct into main room - with stairs off, but has been partly remodelled and main entrance is now in rear kitchen extension with staircase leading off rear passage parallel to rear wall. Barn interior of 3 bays has central threshing bay bordered with low walls and light king post trusses. Byre interior for 6 beasts has interconnecting door with stable which has loft over.

Reasons for Listing

Listed as a mainly unaltered traditional regional farmhouse from early-mid C19 which has almost entirely retained its character.

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  • II Church of St Catwg
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