[1] In the late 17th century, both the hall, and the attached solar block were horizontally divided to create two-storeyed buildings.
[2] An outhouse, with what was originally a free-standing kitchen, was linked to the main block in the 19th century, when the farm was part of the Llanthony Priory estate and owned by the poet Walter Savage Landor.
[4] The architectural historian John Newman describes the farmhouse as "quite exceptional, a complete late medieval hall house, all of stone.
"[5] Sir Cyril Fox and Lord Raglan, in the first of their three-volume study Monmouthshire Houses, give a construction date of c.1500, slightly later than that posited by Cadw and the Landmark Trust.
[6] The roofs of the, now two-storeyed, hall and parlour show evidence of smoke-blackening, indicating that they were "originally open full-height.