- Source: Church Farmhouse, Kemeys Commander
Church Farmhouse, Kemeys Commander, Monmouthshire is a former parsonage dating from the mid-16th century. The farmhouse and the attached barn are Grade II* listed buildings.
History
Sir Cyril Fox and Lord Raglan, in their three-volume study, Monmouthshire Houses, date Church Farmhouse to 1550–1560. The farmhouse was originally the parsonage to the adjacent Church of All Saints On a tithe map of 1841, the farmhouse is recorded as being occupied by an Eleanor Morgan, who was farming 107 acres.
Architecture and description
The building is a cruck-truss house but without the hall open to the roof, the more common style. It is constructed of whitewashed rubble. The building contains a Tudor door reused from nearby Allt-y-Bela. The attic partition has some, "now much faded", figure paintings of a man, a woman and a child. The farmhouse and its attached barn are Grade II* listed buildings, the listing describing the building as a “well-preserved 16th century farmhouse”.
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References
Fox, Cyril; Raglan, Lord (1994). Medieval Houses, Part 1. Monmouthshire Houses. Cardiff: Merton Priory Press Ltd & The National Museum of Wales. ISBN 0-9520009-7-0.
Newman, John (2000). Gwent/Monmouthshire. The Buildings of Wales. London: Penguin. ISBN 0-14-071053-1.