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
27/08/1999
Date of Amendment
27/08/1999
Name of Property
Ivy House
Unitary Authority
Carmarthenshire
Community
Llanfihangel Aberbythych
Location
About 50m west of the B4297 in the village of Maes-y-bont, nearly opposite to the village school. Short access lane.
Broad Class
Agriculture and Subsistence
History
This small farmhouse or cottage is first shown on the Tithe map of of Llanarthney in 1839. It was part of the estate of David Jones of Wern Farm, Llanarthney, but possibly then unoccupied.
Exterior
Early C19 two-window, two-storey small farmhouse or cottage built of white-painted rubble masonry. Slate roof, tile ridge. Rendered end-chimneys. Generous eaves and verge overhangs, with the bargeboards running outside the chimneys. Small open-fronted porch with slate roof and finial.
Sash windows in exposed frames above and below in front elevation: nine-pane above, four-pane below. The upper windows are in unequal-sashes without horns.
Reason for designation
Unspoilt early-C19 vernacular smallholder's farmhouse or cottage.
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