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Upper Tal-y-fan, Dingestow

Coordinates: 51°46′26″N 2°47′45″W / 51.774°N 2.7958°W / 51.774; -2.7958
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Upper Tal-y-fan
"a zany-looking group"
TypeHouse
LocationDingestow, Monmouthshire
Coordinates51°46′26″N 2°47′45″W / 51.774°N 2.7958°W / 51.774; -2.7958
Builtlate Medieval
Architectural style(s)vernacular
Governing bodyPrivately owned
Listed Building – Grade II*
Official nameUpper Tal-y-fan
Designated27 September 2001
Reference no.25777
Upper Tal-y-fan, Dingestow is located in Monmouthshire
Upper Tal-y-fan, Dingestow
Location of Upper Tal-y-fan in Monmouthshire

Upper Tal-y-fan, Dingestow, Monmouthshire is a farmhouse dating from the late-Medieval period. Subsequently, enlarged, it remains a private house and is a Grade II* listed building.

History

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Sir Cyril Fox and Lord Raglan, in the first of their three-volume study Monmouthshire Houses.[1] describe the architectural history of Tal-y-fan as "difficult to make out".[1] They identified two cruck trusses of a medieval date, and suggested that "the transformation of this medieval building was a slow process".[1] Cadw goes no further than describing the original building as "late-medieval".[2] The architectural historian John Newman posits a date of the late 15th or early 16th centuries, identifying an internal doorhead of "identical" design to one of 1599 at Allt-y-Bela.[3] The farmhouse was subsequently expanded and then fully renovated in the late 20th century.[2] As at May 2021, the property was for sale.[4]

Architecture and description

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Fox and Raglan undertook a detailed study of the house, including gathering photographic evidence.[5][6] John Newman describes the current arrangement as "zany-looking", with the earlier wings of the farmhouse "kinking obliquely" and linked by a later extension.[3] These are constructed of whitewashed rubble. The interior is "remarkably intact". The house remains the privately owned farmhouse to a working farm and is a Grade II* listed building.[2]

Notes

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  1. ^ a b c Fox & Raglan 1994, p. 34.
  2. ^ a b c Cadw. "Upper Tal-y-fan (Grade II*) (25777)". National Historic Assets of Wales. Retrieved 15 April 2019.
  3. ^ a b Newman 2000, p. 214.
  4. ^ "Upper Tal-Y-Fan Farm" (PDF). Rightmove. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
  5. ^ "Upper Tal-y-fan". Peoples Collection Wales. Retrieved 15 April 2019.
  6. ^ "Upper Tal-y-fan". Peoples Collection Wales. Retrieved 15 April 2019.

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