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
21979
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
19/07/1999
Date of Amendment
19/07/1999
Name of Property
Delfan
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Carmarthenshire
Community
Llangadog
Town
Llangadog
Locality
Llangadog
Easting
270553
Northing
228501
Street Side
W
Location
Situated at the N end of the street, next to Pont Bran.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Later C19 estate cottage, built for the Danyrallt estate. Houses in similar style are Brodawel and Penrhyn House, Vicarage Road, Velindre House at Felindre and Bwlchagored W of Felindre.
Exterior
House with simplified Tudor detail characteristic of C19 estate work. Rubble stone, the facade in squared stones of three colours, red Sawdde stone, grey limestone and yellow sandstone. Grey tooled limestone is used for quoins and surrounds to openings. Rough rubble stone to end walls. Slate roof overhanging eaves and verges, stone end stacks with triple diagonally-set yellow brick shafts. One and a half storeys, double-fronted with cambered-headed windows, the upper windows rising through eaves under stone gables with moulded bargeboards. Windows have stone quoins, voussoirs and sills, and are under split stone hoodmoulds. Ground floor indows are small-paned 2-light casements, probably originally horizontally-sliding, to match those which survive on the first floor. Centre Tudor-arched doorway with stone voussoirs and split stone gabled hood. Panelled Tudor-arched door with radial fanlight. N end 2-light first floor window with stone lintel and small ground floor window, both set to right. S end first floor C20 inserted window, set to left. No outshut to rear, but single storeyed gabled extension.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as a good example of the estate houses built for the Danyrallt estate in the later C19. Prominent site by Pont Bran.
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