Newton Farmhouse, Talybont-on-Usk, Powys

Coordinates

Latitude: 51.9125 / 51°54'44"N

Longitude: -3.2869 / 3°17'12"W

OS Eastings: 311578

OS Northings: 224551

OS Grid: SO115245

Mapcode National: GBR YT.PPBH

Mapcode Global: VH6C6.Z677

Plus Code: 9C3RWP67+X6

Entry Name: Newton Farmhouse

Listing Date: 17 January 1963

Last Amended: 17 December 1998

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 6765

Building Class: Domestic

ID on this website: 300006765

Location: Midway between Llansantffraed and Scethrog on rising ground just NE of the main road between Abergavenny and Brecon and reached by a short track.

County: Powys

Community: Talybont-on-Usk (Tal-y-bont ar Wysg)

Community: Talybont-on-Usk

Locality: Llansantffraed

Traditional County: Brecknockshire

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History

C17. Home of a branch of the Vaughan family of Tretower and birthplace in C17 of Thomas Vaughan, philosopher and chemist, and Henry Vaughan, metaphysical poet. Probate inventory of 1658 describes ground floor rooms as 'entry, kitchen, buttery and study'; upstairs rooms were 'little chamber over the entry, great chamber over the kitchen and a garret'.

Exterior

A gentry farmhouse. Plan of main house with central entry and rear outshut. Of stone rendered in roughcast, with steep pitched Welsh slate roof, catslide to rear over outshut; end stacks, remodelled early C19, of coursed stone with narrow cornices, and taller kitchen chimney to rear. Evidence of heightening in W wall. Two storeys, 3 window range, most glazing replaced late C20, though attic window in right gable end with stone hoodmould retained; polygonal porch added C20 to central doorway. Attached to rear is a low single storey wing with large chimney in gable end, possibly a wash-house.

Interior

Plan of central entrance into former cross passage with stairs rear left, now incorporated into room right which has open fireplace; separate smaller room to left, both with chimneys on side walls. Rear kitchen has deep chamfered and stopped with reduced fireplace joists and cross beam; former dairy across passage.

Reasons for Listing

Listed, notwithstanding window replacement since listing, for its special historical interest as the birthplace of a major British poet.

Group value with barn and stable range opposite.

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Other nearby listed buildings

II Barn and stable range at Newton
Forming the E side of the farmyard, opposite the house.
II The Old Rectory
By the main road between Brecon and Abergavenny, NW of Llansantffraed church, on the banks of the River Usk.
II Paragon Tower
High on the mountainside of Allt-yr-Esgair E of Newton. Reached by track from Tal-y-bryn to E.
II Yr Hen Bersondy (also known as The Old Rectory)
On the E border of the hamlet of Scethrog, reached by a lane to rear, on rising ground above the River Usk.
II Gilestone
On low lying ground in the Usk Valley, N of Talybont village, reached by a long farmtrack across fields from the road E, or a less used track across the canal to S.
II* Scethrog House
In the hamlet of Scethrog, on sloping ground above the River Usk and N of the A40.
II Llansantffraed House
In a dominating position adjacent to Llansantffraed church, above the main road between Abergavenny and Brecon, overlooking the River Usk.
II Barn to N of The Tower
Just off the S side of the main Abergavenny Brecon Road (A40), the gable end fronting the track leading down to The Tower and the River Usk.

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History in Structure

Newton Farmhouse

A Grade II Listed Building in Talybont-on-Usk, Powys