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Hendy Farm

Primary Reference Number (PRN) : 02178m
Trust : Glamorgan Gwent
Community : Pont-y-clun
Unitary authority : Rhondda, Cynon, Taff
NGR : ST0450881376
Site Type (preferred type first) : POST MEDIEVAL Farm

Summary :
Late 18th/early 19th century house with associated farm buildings, with later alterations. Demolished in 1997 for housing development. .

Description :
As part of joint venture between the Land Authority for Wales and the local authority the site of Hendy Farm is to be developed as housing. In advance of the demolition of the buildings comprising Hendy Farm a programme of architectural recording was undertaken. This report contains a summary of the results of this programme.

Building A:
This building appears to have undergone several stages of alteration since its construction (Figure Two). Its original usage was as a cart shed and at this stage its form was of a symmetrical two-storied building whose frontage was pierced by two large arches supported by well-constructed masonry columns giving access to the ground floor. Above these arches was a single window set in roughly coursed random rubble construction. It is likely that this upper storey was used for storage or perhaps as a granary, although it is unclear how it was accessed.

Subsequently the building was extended to the north and the frontage remodelled. The arches were partially blocked, the centre arch was now pierced by a door and the southern by a window, reflecting the one in the face of the northern extension. Access to the first floor was now achieved by means of steps set against the external face of the northern wall, perhaps reflecting the previous arrangements. The final phase sees the remodelling of the southern window with its partial blocking by breeze blocks. In its final phase this building was used as a stable.

Building B:
This single-storied building belongs the pre-1824 phase, although it is probably late 18th century at earliest. For ease of description it is divided into two elements, the northern and western. The northern range has been severely affected by the construction of a modern cow-shed, however, some earlier features were still detectable. Along the northern wall were a series of blocked in windows and the eastern wall was pierced by a door giving access to the track leading from the yard up Cefn-yr-Hendy. The western range (Figure Three) was in better condition and more of its original form could be detected. This was a cattle shed with and open frontage divided into bays by tapering circular pillars. This is a common feature of cow sheds in South Wales and can be seen at farms such as The Duffryn, Newport and Canterw, Monknash

The SE corner of the present building is partly formed by one of these pillars and it is probable that the original range extended further to the south. These bays were later blocked and access was now provided by a doorway in the southernmost surviving bay. A window pierced the blocking in the third bay. These features were in turn blocked up with and two new doorways and a window were constructed. It is also possible that at this time the roof level was raised. All the construction was similar in nature, consisting of crudely coursed random rubble blocks set in lime mortar. The exception being the surrounds of the final doors and window which were built in brick.

Building C:
Again this building has been much disturbed by modern activity and little of its original form or usage could be determined. It belongs to the post-1840 construction and is built of random rubble blocks set in a lime mortar. Its surviving form is of an open-fronted building built against the west building D which was pierced by a first floor door, since blocked, implying that building C was also originally of two stories.

Building D:
This is a long narrow building of two stories butted by building C on its western side. Access to the ground floor is gained by a wide archway in the southern face, and by a partially blocked doorway in the northern wall (Figure Four). The ground floor was partitioned in two and the southern portion was probably used as a cart shed. First floor access was gained by steps set against the eastern wall, which was also pierced by two windows. A blocked doorway on the ground floor in the western wall gave access to building C. A blocked doorway in the upper floor on the western side may have provided access to an upper floor of building C.

Building E:
This barn is part of the pre-1824 construction. Only the grosser features could be detected because of the dilapidation of the structure and the heavily overgrown state of the remains. It appears to have been a typical 18th/19th century barn with two large opposing doorways to allow access by carts. The western doorway was porched. On the northern wall of this structure the roof line for the rest of the original eastern range could be seen. An outhouse had been added to the south of the porch.

Building F:
This building post-dates the 1840 Tithe Map and is constructed from random rubble set in lime mortar. It consists of two separate elements, two pigsties and an outhouse (Figure Five). The two elements are separated from one another by the wall enclosing the farmyard. (Yates, 1997)

Sources :
Yates, A , 1997 , Building Survey at Hendy Farm, Lantrisant ( © GGAT)
02/mh map/Bute estate//1824//
01/pm mention/GGAT//1991/Cefn y Hendy Assess/p17;
01/pm desc text/ggat/1997/Hendy Farm Project No. A381 GGAT Report 97/
Hendy Farm

Events :
E003787 : Cefn - yr- Hendy, Mid- Glamorgan: Evaluation (year : 1992)
E003788 : Cefn-yr-Hendy An Initial Archaeological Assessment (year : 1991)
E002181 : Building Survey at Hendy Farm, Lantrisant SUR (year : 1997)

Related records
GGAT Historic Environment Record (HER) 02175m
GGAT Historic Environment Record (HER) 03544m, 03543m, 03542m, 03541m

Compiled date : 27-08-1991


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