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.
Date of Designation
19/10/1998
Date of Amendment
19/10/1998
Name of Property
Glanrafon
Location
The building lies immediately W of the chapel on the farm road to Hafodty Hafod Dre.
History
Built as a pair of cottages, probably in the mid C19.
Exterior
Built of rubble stonework, rendered to the front and rear, and slate roof. Reflected pair of cottages, each consisting of one room with a narrow service bay containing the front door on the outer side of the building. Boarded doors, and small timber casement windows in deep reveals. No windows on the rear. Coped gable at the W end only. Rendered central four-flue stack. The cottages have now been made into one dwelling.
Reason for designation
Included as a pair of typical hill-country farm workers cottages, of group value with the chapel and telephone call box at Hafod, characteristic of the smallest category of early C19 upland settlement in rural Wales.
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