Church Farmhouse | |
Type: | Farmhouse |
Map Relief: | yes |
Coordinates: | 51.7374°N -2.9442°W |
Location: | Kemeys Commander, Monmouthshire |
Built: | mid-16th century |
Architecture: | Vernacular |
Governing Body: | Privately owned |
Designation1: | Grade II* listed building |
Designation1 Offname: | Church Farmhouse and attached barn |
Designation1 Date: | 4 March 1952 |
Designation1 Number: | 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. The farmhouse was originally the parsonage to the adjacent Church of All Saints On a tithe map of 1841, the farmhouse is recorded as being occupied by an Eleanor Morgan, who was farming 107 acres.
The building is a cruck-truss house but without the hall open to the roof, the more common style. It is constructed of whitewashed rubble. The building contains a Tudor door reused from nearby Allt-y-Bela. The attic partition has some, "now much faded", figure paintings of a man, a woman and a child. The farmhouse and its attached barn are Grade II* listed buildings, the listing describing the building as a “well-preserved 16th century farmhouse”.
. John Newman (architectural historian). The Buildings of Wales. Gwent/Monmouthshire. 2000. Penguin. London. 0-14-071053-1.