CWMMAU FARMHOUSE AND ADJOINING COWHOUSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1349554
Date first listed:: 19-Aug-1953
List Entry Name:: CWMMAU FARMHOUSE AND ADJOINING COWHOUSE
Statutory Address:: CWMMAU FARMHOUSE AND ADJOINING COWHOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1349554
Date first listed:: 19-Aug-1953
List Entry Name:: CWMMAU FARMHOUSE AND ADJOINING COWHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: CWMMAU FARMHOUSE AND ADJOINING COWHOUSE

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: CWMMAU FARMHOUSE AND ADJOINING COWHOUSE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Brilley
National Grid Reference:: SO 27666 51106

Details

BRILLEY CP - SO 25 SE 2/2 Cwmmau Farmhouse and adjoining cowhouse 19.8.53 II* GV

Farmhouse and adjoining cowhouse. Early C17, altered late C17, mid-C19 and late C20. Timber-framed with painted brick infill on rubble base, weather- boarded gables and stone-tiled roofs laid in diminishing courses. Hall and cross-wing plan; hall of one framed bay aligned north-east/south-west with external rubble chimney and brick stack at north-east end and two-storey porch wing to south-east front. Cross-wing of two framed bays situated at south-west end; it has a large external rubble chimney which has three star- shaped brick stacks with joint capping on its south-west chimney and also an external rubble chimney with a brick stack at its north-west end. A single- bay wing was built onto the south-west side of its north-west bay in the late C17; this wing has a contemporary lean-to outshut at its south-west end with another lean-to outshut on its north-west side. Two storeys, attic and cellar. Framing: main part has six rows of square panels from sill to wall-plate, some long straight braces in lower corners of both floors of porch wing. Gable end of porch has jettied upper storeys on shaped brackets. Roof trusses mainly con- cealed and are of collar and tie-beam truss type with struts and raking struts across lower corners. Late C17 lean-to addition has four rows of square panels from sill to wall-plate. The cross-wing has stone-tiled pent-roofs at first floor level; there are timber nesting boxes with two rows of entry holes beneath the south-east pent-roof. Windows have leaded casements. South-east front elevation: hall part has a rectangular first floor window. Porch has a first floor 3-light window with a plank weathering; beneath is a round-headed timber archway and within a large ledged and battened door with an original moulded architrave. Cross-wing gable end to left has an original 6-light mullioned- and-transomed window on both floors, the outer lights of which are now blocked; the ground floor window projects slightly on an original moulded sill. There is an attic light with a plank weathering. The late C17 wing to the left has a ground floor cross-casement and a first floor rectangular light. The lean-to outshut at the gable end of the wing has a 2-light window on both floors. There are some original ogee-mouldedmullioned windows to the rear of the main part. A single-storey service wing adjoins the north-west gable end of the cross-wing. Interior: some original ceiling beams are exposed. Hall has large fireplace and original dog-leg staircase with pierced splat balusters, moulded handrails and square newels with shaped finials. One doorway has an original moulded frame. The cowhouse adjoins the north-east end of the hall. Early C17 or possibly medieval. Timber-framed and weatherboarded on rubble base with stone-tiled roof laid in diminishing courses. Six framed bays with through-passage bay adjacent to farmhouse. Framing not visible externally. South-east elevation: there are two 2-light windows with transom lights and a 6-pane window on the ground floor, an upper level rectangular leaded light and a loft door, and two ledged and battened doors and a stable door. The north-west elevation has a continuous lean-to outshut. Interior not inspected, but recorded to have exposed heavy beams and joists and retain traces of colour decoration in a chevron design. (RCHM, III, p 23-4, item 3; BoE, p 86).

Listing NGR: SO2766651106

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 150555
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Inventory of Herefordshire III North West, (1934), 23-4
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Herefordshire, (1963), 86

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.