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
22887
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
03/03/2000
Date of Amendment
03/03/2000
Name of Property
Ty Gwyn
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Swansea
Community
Llangennith, Llanmadoc and Cheriton
Town
Swansea
Locality
Llanmadoc village
Easting
244025
Northing
193373
Street Side
Location
Opposite Big House Farmhouse, set back from the village street.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Ty Gwyn was originally the bakehouse of the Big House farmhouse, later converted into a cottage.
This has an important historical association with Dr Ernest Jones (1879-1958), the leading English-language authority on the theory and practice of psychoanalysis and its first practitioner in Wales, who is believed to have carried out much of his scientific thinking and writing from the 1920s to the 1950s here. Jones was director of the London Clinic of Psychoanalysis, founder and president of the International Psycho-Analytical Association and the British Psycho-Analylitical Society. He was born in Gowerton, was an early member of Plaid Cymru and a longstanding member of the Gower Society. From the 1930s Dr Jones lived at Ty Gwyn as his retreat from London. His ashes were laid in Cheriton churchyard on his daughter's grave.
Jones was the friend and biographer of Sigmund Freud, whom he first met in 1908; he was instrumental in helping Freud's escape from Austria in 1938. Freud died at Jones's home in London.
Exterior
A small two-storey, two-window cottage in stone, rendered and painted white, with slate roof, tile ridge, and brick end-chimney at right. Recessed frames in small window openings to front elevation, central front door. Side entrance from adjacent lane at rear of left gable. Small rear extensions.
Interior
Described as one room down, one room up, with exposed beams.
Reason for designation
Listed mainly for the historical importance of Dr Ernest Jones and his creative work written within this building.
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