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
1906
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
24/08/1990
Date of Amendment
31/03/1999
Name of Property
Cwmbrynar aka Cwmbraenar Cottage
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Caerphilly
Community
Pontllanfraith
Town
Locality
Cwn Braenar
Easting
318795
Northing
195999
Street Side
S
Location
Approximately 0.75km E of Pontllanfraith and the Sirhowy River. Set back from the main road behind rubble walled and gated forecourt.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Early to mid C19. The area was formerly known as Cwm Braenar after Nant Braenar. First edition OS map shows a small colliery at nearby Cwm Braenar and a short distance NE at Glan-braenar was the junction between the Great Western Region Aberdare extension and the former Hall's tramway. This house thus probably relates to the period of early relatively small-scale mining in the area before the big expansion in the early years of C20. Refurbishing since listing has removed later accretions including a rear chimney.
Exterior
Two-storey cottage with late Georgian detail. Rubble masonry with Welsh slate roof and end chimney stacks with brick neck band. Broad 2-window front; all openings have cambered-headed voussoirs. Flanking the entrance are recessed small-pane horned sash windows with sills, 9-pane to 1st floor and 12-pane below; 4-panelled door - this was originally set a little further back and is now part glazed. To rear a cat-slide roof, central doorway and cambered headed windows to right and left with upper one immediately below the eaves No windows to gable ends.
Interior
Internally the plan form is unaltered with central cross passage, end chimneys and winding stone stairs beside the stepped chimney breast to the right; beamed ceilings. Upstairs the two rooms lead directly one from the other in the traditional manner.
Reason for designation
Listed as a rare example of an early - mid C19 'Valleys' cottage which has retained much of its character.
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