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
16268
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
02/08/1995  
Date of Amendment
02/08/1995  
Name of Property
Ty'n-y-Corn  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Carmarthenshire  
Community
Cynwyl Gaeo  
Town
 
Locality
Saron  
Easting
266882  
Northing
249127  
Street Side
 
Location
Situated on steep wooded N slope of the Twrch Valley, reached by track off Ffarmers-Llandewi Brefi by-road.  

Description


Broad Class
Domestic  
Period
 

History
Early C19, roof raised later to make two full storeys. Shown on 1841 Tithe Map.  

Exterior
Colourwashed rubble 3-bay front, offset to right. Slate roof, wooden soffits. Broad rendered gable chimney-stacks. Late C19 4-pane horned sashes (smaller to first floor), timber lintels above, stone lintels below. Boarded central door, concrete lintel. Two small rear single pane windows with stone lintels. C20 window to ground floor left. Later lower former lofted stable to left, upper 4-pane window rising to eaves, modified 4-pane horned sash to ground floor left, boarded door with concrete lintel. Left end with boarded loft door, timber lintel. Window below to left with stone lintel. Four pane window to rear rising to eaves. Later single storey building to right, probably former cowshed: the downslope half is ruined, the rest remodelled as a store, the sloping asbestos sheet roof replacing a pitched one.  

Interior
Complete wickerwork fireplace hood to left hand ground floor room (boxed in at first floor level); the hood is formed from a basket-work pyramid on a beam resting on four courses of stone set above the actual fireplace.  

Reason for designation
Good unspoilt early C19 former farmhouse.  

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