Chapel Farmhouse, Llanarth

Chapel Farmhouse and its attached outbuilding, Llanarth, Monmouthshire is a house dating from the 16th century. Greatly enlarged in the 17th century, it remains a private house. It is a Grade II* listed building.

Chapel Farmhouse
"an impressively intact 16th century farmhouse"
TypeHouse
LocationLlanarth, Monmouthshire
Coordinates51°46′47″N 2°55′00″W / 51.7797°N 2.9166°W / 51.7797; -2.9166
Built16th and 17th centuries
Architectural style(s)vernacular
Governing bodyPrivately owned
Listed Building – Grade II*
Official nameChapel Farmhouse and attached outbuilding
Designated9 January 1956
Reference no.1965
Chapel Farmhouse, Llanarth is located in Monmouthshire
Chapel Farmhouse, Llanarth
Location of Chapel Farmhouse in Monmouthshire

History

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Cadw notes the "eccentric" relationship" of the two wings of the house and suggests this is evidence that the house was reconstructed from earlier buildings, probably a 14th-century manor house.[1] The architectural historian John Newman notes the "historically" important existence of a raised cruck truss in the hall of the house which he suggests places it as a transitional building between the traditional, single-level, Welsh hall house and later, storeyed, buildings.[2] What stands today represents two construction periods of the late 16th and early 17th centuries, with some 19th-century reconstruction.[3] The National Trust suggests that Chapel Farm may have operated as the home farm for the Clytha Park Estate.[4] Owned by the Jones family from the 18th century, it remains a private residence.[3]

Architecture and description

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The house is of stone, to an L-plan, the taller, East, range being of the 17th century and the lower, Southeast, range of the 16th.[3] John Newman describes Chapel farm as "unusually well-preserved".[2] Sir Cyril Fox and Lord Raglan, in their three-volume study Monmouthshire Houses, include detailed sketch plans of the house, together with a chronological interpretation in which they identify three building phases, the medieval, the 1580s and the 1620s.[5] The National Trust notes the "impressive array of buildings, with a fine cart shed range".[4] The farmhouse is a Grade II* listed building, its listing record describing it as "impressively intact".[3]

Notes

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  1. ^ "Chapel Farmhouse, Clytha (36614)". Coflein. RCAHMW. Retrieved 29 September 2021.
  2. ^ a b Newman 2000, p. 192.
  3. ^ a b c d Cadw. "Chapel Farmhouse and attached outbuilding (Grade II*) (1965)". National Historic Assets of Wales. Retrieved 13 April 2019.
  4. ^ a b "MNA156017 – National Trust Heritage Records". heritagerecords.nationaltrust.org.uk. Retrieved 13 April 2019.
  5. ^ Fox & Raglan 1994, p. 71.

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