Persondy | |
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Type | House |
Location | Mamhilad, Monmouthshire |
Coordinates | 51°43′24″N 3°00′48″W / 51.7234°N 3.0133°W |
Built | late 16th century |
Architectural style(s) | Vernacular |
Governing body | Privately owned |
Listed Building – Grade II* | |
Official name | Persondy |
Designated | 4 March 1952 |
Reference no. | 2619 |
Listed Building – Grade II | |
Official name | Ysguborwen |
Designated | 18 November 1980 |
Reference no. | 2620 |
Persondy (the Priest's House), Mamhilad, Monmouthshire is a former parsonage dating from the late 16th century. It is a Grade II* listed building. The adjacent barn, now a separate residence called Ysguborwen, has its own Grade II listing.
The house dates from the late 16th century and is constructed to a two-cell plan. [1] It was built as the parsonage to the parish Church of St Illtyd. [2] It is largely unaltered since its construction, with the exception of the addition of a veranda to the south and east sides in the 1940s. [1] It is built of Old red sandstone which has been white rendered, an alteration which the architectural historian John Newman, writing in his Gwent/Monmouthshire Pevsner, considers "unattractiv[e]". [3] Aside from its unaltered state, the notable feature of Persondy is its "extraordinarily rich" [2] interior joinery, which Newman describes as a "joy in oaken carpentry". [1] David Barnes, in his Companion Guide to Wales, calls the interior "a remarkable survival", [4] and Peter Smith notes the unexpectedly "fine work [to be] found in [this] small, two-unit, house". [a] [6]
The adjacent barn was converted to residential use in 1993 and has its own Grade II listing. [7] Coflein considers that the barn may originally have functioned as a tithe barn to the parsonage, [8] following a suggestion first made by Sir Cyril Fox and Lord Raglan in Sub-Medieval Houses, c. 1550–1610, the second volume of their multi-volume study, Monmouthshire Houses. [9]
Persondy | |
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Type | House |
Location | Mamhilad, Monmouthshire |
Coordinates | 51°43′24″N 3°00′48″W / 51.7234°N 3.0133°W |
Built | late 16th century |
Architectural style(s) | Vernacular |
Governing body | Privately owned |
Listed Building – Grade II* | |
Official name | Persondy |
Designated | 4 March 1952 |
Reference no. | 2619 |
Listed Building – Grade II | |
Official name | Ysguborwen |
Designated | 18 November 1980 |
Reference no. | 2620 |
Persondy (the Priest's House), Mamhilad, Monmouthshire is a former parsonage dating from the late 16th century. It is a Grade II* listed building. The adjacent barn, now a separate residence called Ysguborwen, has its own Grade II listing.
The house dates from the late 16th century and is constructed to a two-cell plan. [1] It was built as the parsonage to the parish Church of St Illtyd. [2] It is largely unaltered since its construction, with the exception of the addition of a veranda to the south and east sides in the 1940s. [1] It is built of Old red sandstone which has been white rendered, an alteration which the architectural historian John Newman, writing in his Gwent/Monmouthshire Pevsner, considers "unattractiv[e]". [3] Aside from its unaltered state, the notable feature of Persondy is its "extraordinarily rich" [2] interior joinery, which Newman describes as a "joy in oaken carpentry". [1] David Barnes, in his Companion Guide to Wales, calls the interior "a remarkable survival", [4] and Peter Smith notes the unexpectedly "fine work [to be] found in [this] small, two-unit, house". [a] [6]
The adjacent barn was converted to residential use in 1993 and has its own Grade II listing. [7] Coflein considers that the barn may originally have functioned as a tithe barn to the parsonage, [8] following a suggestion first made by Sir Cyril Fox and Lord Raglan in Sub-Medieval Houses, c. 1550–1610, the second volume of their multi-volume study, Monmouthshire Houses. [9]