| Chapel Farmhouse | |
| Type: | House |
| Map Relief: | yes |
| Coordinates: | 51.7797°N -2.9166°W |
| Location: | Llanarth, Monmouthshire |
| Built: | 16th and 17th centuries |
| Architecture: | vernacular |
| Governing Body: | Privately owned |
| Designation1: | Grade II* listed building |
| Designation1 Offname: | Chapel Farmhouse and attached outbuilding |
| Designation1 Date: | 9 January 1956 |
| Designation1 Number: | 1965 |
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.
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. 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. What stands today represents two construction periods of the late 16th and early 17th centuries, with some 19th-century reconstruction. The National Trust suggests that Chapel Farm may have operated as the home farm for the Clytha Park Estate.[1] Owned by the Jones family from the 18th century, it remains a private residence.
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. John Newman describes Chapel farm as "unusually well-preserved". 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. The National Trust notes the "impressive array of buildings, with a fine cart shed range".[1] The farmhouse is a Grade II* listed building, its listing record describing it as "impressively intact".
. John Newman (architectural historian). The Buildings of Wales. Gwent/Monmouthshire. 2000. Penguin. London. 0-14-071053-1.