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
24460
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
18/12/2000
Date of Amendment
13/09/2002
Name of Property
Maes-y-Bidiau
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Carmarthenshire
Community
Llanfihangel Rhos-y-Corn
Town
Carmarthen
Locality
Nantyffin
Easting
256410
Northing
232900
Street Side
NW
Location
Set back from the N side of the B4310 Brechfa to Abergorlech road approximately 4.6km NE of Brechfa.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
An early C18 cruck-framed house, with a lower byre originally forming a longhouse. The house was altered in the C19 by making a new central entrance with stair hall, and when at least part of the byre was incorporated into the domestic accommodation and a small outshut was added. The house was restored late C20.
Exterior
A 1½-storey house of whitened rubble stone, steep slate roof, C17 square stone stack to the L and smaller stack to the R. A central C19 boarded door is under a wooden lintel and an overlight beneath the eaves. It is flanked by inserted windows. The R gable end has an added small lean-to and an inserted attic window upper L in the gable. The lower rubble-stone single-storey former byre, to the L of the original house, has a C20 boarded door to the R replaced in an original opening (and comprising the original entrance to the longhouse), then 2 inserted windows and a window to the L in place of an earlier but not original byre door. A garage has been added in-line at the end of the former byre. The rear of the former byre has an outshut, formerly a dairy, with replaced window to the L and skylights. The rear of the main house also has skylights. It has a C19 stair window beneath the eaves centre-L, to the R of which is an inserted window under an added roof dormer, and to the L of which is a shallow outshut under a catslide roof, with enlarged window.
Interior
Three pairs of scarfed crucks are retained and are the earliest surviving features. The present interior plan is C19, however. The entrance opens into a small stair hall with dog-leg stair. The floor is laid with C19 quarry tiles. The original hall, to the L, retains a fireplace with large timber lintel. To its L is a wood-framed doorway forming the original entrance to the domestic accommodation.
Reason for designation
Listed as a well-preserved cruck-framed longhouse, one of the few surviving of a once common regional building type.
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