Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
10925
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
08/07/1966
Date of Amendment
25/02/1999
Name of Property
Cefncoed
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Carmarthenshire
Community
Llanfair-ar-y-Bryn
Town
Llandovery
Locality
Pentre-ty-gwyn
Easting
281651
Northing
236783
Street Side
Location
Situated down a track some 1.5km N of the centre of Pentre-ty-gwyn village.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
An altered earlier C18 farmhouse, the birthplace of the divine and hymnodist William Williams 1717-91. Williams was born and brought up at Cefncoed, son of John and Dorothy Williams, but on marriage in 1748-9 settled at his mother's family home, Pantycelyn, nearby. Marked on 1841 Tithe Map as owned by Ebenezer Thomas, occupied by William Evans with 269 acres (108.95 hectares).
Exterior
Farmhouse, whitewashed render with slate roof, large square left end stone stack, small rendered right end stack. Attached service range to left to same ridge line but steeper pitched roof. Left end stack removed since 1966. Two-storey, three-window range offset to right. C20 plastic sashes imitating previous 6-pane sashes and plastic door with overlight. Upper windows under eaves. Service wing is whitewashed rubble stone with C20 window each side of half-glazed door, the left window narrow, the right square. Timber lintels. Whitewashed rubble rear and end walls. Rear of house has 3xC20 plastic windows under eaves. Some brick rebuilding between. Two windows to rear of service range, one blocked in centre.
Interior
Not accessible on resurvey, but said to have substantial oak transverse beams and inglenook with cambered headed oak bressummer and brick oven.
Reason for designation
Included for historical reasons as the birthplace of William Williams in 1717, the house retains its vernacular character as a C18 building, notwithstanding alteration to detail.
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