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HISTORY - LISTED BUILDINGS: TYNEWYDD FARM

TYNEWYDD
Tynewydd Farm, Mountain View. Grade II*.
Listed March 23, 1972. Amended April 2, 1996.

Location
A single house, set within a walled garden on the south facing slope of the the valley above the River Rhondda and the later development of the town with acces from the street known as Mountain View.

Exterior
A large three unit house of two and a half storeys, facing south, with storeyed porch on the front and lean-to at the rear. The east unit is gabled to the front in the form of a cross-wing. Limewash over random rubble sandstone, with recent slate roof. Four stacks on longitudinal gable are rendered, but with shallow sandstone collars. The south range is dominated by the large gabled porch. A dressed stone sundial in the gable is dated 1652. The upper storey has a later casement window under a segmental arch, and square hood mould. The doorway is also udner a segmental arch. Either side of the porch are later casement windows rising to eaves height, with later horned sashes under segmental arches on the ground floor. The east unit has similar windows to its ground and first floors. The sills udner the windows on the front range are all additions. The rear elevation has an original lean-to service room built on the east side. The roof of the main range has an inserted gabled dormer with a single pane window. Below this is the lean-to, of random rubble with dressed stone jambs and sills. In the centre of the range is the gabled stairwell, which has two openings under timber lintels. A loft stair light has a single vertical iron bar in a timber frame, while the lower light has four iron bars in a wooden frame with central mullion. To the west of the stairwell the north range has a two-pane casement window rising to the wallplate. On the ground floor is an inserted casement window under a segmental arch, and a doorway under a segmental arch which has a stable door with tongue and groove planking.

Interior
The three unit plan form incorporated a central half with kitchen to the west and parlour to the east, with lean-to service rooms built against the hall and parlour. The opposed entrances to the kitchen define it as a chimney-backing-on-the-entry plan. The porch floor is laid with flagstones.

Other internal features that have been recorded are that the kitchen has a joist-beamed ceiling with ogee stops, the hall and parlour have beam-and-joist ceilings with run-out stops. Two parallel rollers fixed between the ceiling beams over the hall fireplace formed part of a corn drying rack whereby sacking on which corn had been spread was supported by the rollers. A drying kiln was later inserted on the first floor in a cupboard at the side of the kitchen chimney. The doorway to the stair has ovolo mouldings. The pillar stair has timber treads. Internal doors have decorative iron hinges with fleur-de-lys. The principles have curved feet set well down into the walls.

Listed
Listed as an important example of a large, mid seventeenth century farmhouse pre-dating the industrial and social development of Treherbert and because of its rare surviving, good quality interior timber details.