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
13403
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
22/05/1978
Date of Amendment
Name of Property
The Old Sheep Washery
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Vale of Glamorgan
Community
Llandow
Town
Locality
LLysworney
Easting
296216
Northing
174154
Street Side
Location
Located at the centre of the village, opposite the village pond and sheep pound, and to the W of the Parish Church of St. Tydfil.
Description
Broad Class
Agriculture and Subsistence
Period
History
Mid C19 washery which does not appear on the Tithe map of 1840.
Exterior
Single storey structure with whitewashed stone rubble walls and roof of two bays with corrugated cladding. Small stone chimney stack at NW end. The NW gable wall has a small shuttered opening in its E side and egress for water to the stream bed in its W side. The SW elevation has an opening at its base to an internal basin. The SE gable wall has a wide opening on the E side.
Interior
Approximately one third of the surface of the building is taken up on the W side by a sunken basin for washing with water flowing into it from a pipe in the SE gable end. A flight of steps at the N end of the basin leads up to a platform with a stone flagged floor and low stone rubble balustrade above the basin, now partly demolished. In the NE wall are the remains of a fireplace. Allegedly the structure was used as a communal laundry.
Reason for designation
Listed grade II as a scarce roofed example of this building type in a village context.
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