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  • 21 Aug, 2019

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Church Farmhouse, Kemeys Commander

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.

History

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.

Architecture and description

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”.

Notes

  1. ^ Fox & Raglan 1994, p. 103.
  2. ^ Newman 2000, p. 259.
  3. ^ Cadw. "Church Farmhouse, Kemeys Commander (Grade II*) (2629)". National Historic Assets of Wales. Retrieved 17 April 2022.
  4. ^ Fox & Raglan 1994, pp. 48–50.

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