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
11194
Building Number
24
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
04/04/1975
Date of Amendment
17/01/2006
Name of Property
Y Bwthyn
Address
24 Caecerrig Road
Location
Unitary Authority
Swansea
Community
Pontardulais
Town
Locality
Pontarddulais
Easting
259526
Northing
203823
Street Side
SE
Location
Set back from the road at the SE of a bend, between neighbouring buildings.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Two-unit, direct-entry cottage with hall and outer room. c1800, extended later. Subsidiary small dwelling to right end.
Exterior
Single storey and attic C18-type of cottage, on a roughly E-W axis, formerly two cottages. Rubble stone, covered in roughcast render, with traditional Welsh thatched roof. Taller range to N, with higher eaves and ridges and large roughcast stack to S end. West frontage has modern gabled porch to centre, heightened in 2002, with small 8-pane horned timber sashes with stone sills and plain reveals to each side. S gable end has small attic light with timber lintel. Lower range to S is slightly recessed with single horned sash to W frontage, with stone sill. Stack to S end in painted roughcast. Modern ground floor projections to E behind both ranges, and small modern extensions to N and S ends. S extension is almost full-height with Welsh slate gabled roof and painted timber barge-board.
Interior
Not inspected.
Reason for designation
Included as a rare survival of a traditional cottage type for the area, and for its thatched roof - the last in the parish.
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