Pentwyn,

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is a farmhouse dating from the mid-16th century. The house is

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, with the adjacent barn having its own Grade II listing.

History and description

Sir Cyril Fox and Lord Raglan, in their three-volume study ''

Monmouthshire Houses ''Monmouthshire Houses: A Study of Building Techniques and Smaller House-Plans in the Fifteenth to Seventeenth Centuries'' is a study of buildings within the county of Monmouthshire written by Sir Cyril Fox and Lord Raglan and published by the ...

'', date the building to 1560–1570. They describe it as originally constructed to an ''L''-plan. The house was rebuilt in the 18th century. On a tithe map of 1837, Pentwyn is recorded as being in the ownership of a Thomas James, and being farmed with 161 acres by a Mattias Goff. The 1895 ''

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'' for Monmouthshire records an Evans Francis as being resident. The architectural historian John Newman describes Pentwyn as "conspicuously sited on a hillock overlooking the

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. The farmhouse is of 2 storeys and the entrance front dates from the Georgian remodelling. Fox and Raglan, and Newman, note the early use of stone

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windows, Fox and Raglan assigning the farmhouse to their "exotic" grouping of Monmouthshire houses on this basis. Pentwyn has a Grade II* listing, its listing describing it as "a Georgian reconstruction of an important 16th century house", while the 18th century barn has a Grade II listing.

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* * {{Cite book , last=Newman, first=John , authorlink=John Newman (architectural historian) , series=The Buildings of Wales , title=Gwent/Monmouthshire , url=https://books.google.com/books?id=knRf4U60QjcC&dq=The+Buildings+of+Wales%3A+Gwent%2FMonmouthshire&pg=PA2 , year=2000 , publisher=Penguin , location=London , isbn=0-14-071053-1 Grade II* listed buildings in Monmouthshire Grade II* listed houses in Wales