Church Farmhouse | |
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![]() "a well preserved 16th century farmhouse" | |
Type | Farmhouse |
Location | Kemeys Commander, Monmouthshire |
Coordinates | 51°44′15″N 2°56′39″W / 51.73742°N 2.94422°W |
Built | mid-16th century |
Architectural style(s) | Vernacular |
Governing body | Privately owned |
Listed Building – Grade II* | |
Official name | Church Farmhouse and attached barn |
Designated | 4 March 1952 |
Reference no. | 2629 |
Church Farmhouse, Kemeys Commander, Monmouthshire is a former parsonage dating from the mid-16th century. The farmhouse and the attached barn are Grade II* listed buildings.
Sir Cyril Fox and Lord Raglan, in their three-volume study, Monmouthshire Houses, date Church Farmhouse to 1550–1560. [1] The farmhouse was originally the parsonage to the adjacent Church of All Saints [2] On a tithe map of 1841, the farmhouse is recorded as being occupied by an Eleanor Morgan, who was farming 107 acres. [3]
The building is a cruck-truss house but without the hall open to the roof, the more common style. [4] It is constructed of whitewashed rubble. [3] The building contains a Tudor door reused from nearby Allt-y-Bela. [3] The attic partition has some, "now much faded", [2] figure paintings of a man, a woman and a child. [3] The farmhouse and its attached barn are Grade II* listed buildings, the listing describing the building as a “well-preserved 16th century farmhouse”. [3]