Upper Green | |
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![]() "a substantial Renaissance farmhouse with exceptionally well-preserved interior" | |
Type | House |
Location | Llantilio Crossenny, Monmouthshire |
Coordinates | 51°51′59″N2°53′28″W / 51.8664°N 2.891°W |
Built | Medieval, 17th and 18th centuries |
Architectural style(s) | Renaissance |
Governing body | Privately owned |
Listed Building – Grade II* | |
Official name | Upper Green |
Designated | 19 November 1953 |
Reference no. | 2078 |
Upper Green, Llantilio Crossenny, Monmouthshire is a farmhouse dating from the Medieval period. The original hall house was enlarged in the 17th century. In the 18th century, a substantial new farmhouse was built which incorporated the hall house as a service wing. Upper Green remains a private house and is a Grade II* listed building.
The origins of the farmhouse are medieval. [1] The rear wing, the oldest remaining part, incorporates remnants of a cruck-frame roof of what was probably a hall house. [1] In the 17th century, the building was expanded and refaced in stone. [1] In the 18th a large new house was constructed in a Renaissance style and the original hall house was utilised as a service wing. An alternative suggestion is that the two buildings operated as separate living units. [1]
The house is of three storeys, with substantial chimney stacks. It is constructed of rubble stone. [1] The interior is "exceptionally well-preserved, [1] and contains "fine" wooden fittings, including a staircase and wall cupboards, dating from the 18th century. [1] Upper Green has been little studied, appearing neither in Sir Cyril Fox and Lord Raglan's Monmouthshire Houses nor in John Newman's Monmouthshire Pevsner . The house is recorded, although not described, in Peter Smith's Houses of the Welsh Countryside. Smith notes the house on one of his distribution maps as being a stone farmhouse with half-timbered outbuildings. [2] It is a Grade II* listed building. [1]