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
11/06/2001
Date of Amendment
11/06/2001
Name of Property
Old house at Trefenty
Unitary Authority
Carmarthenshire
Location
Situated in grassed enclosure immediately N of Trefenty.
History
Probable former estate farmhouse at Trefenty, possibly C18 altered in C19.
Exterior
Former estate farmhouse of 2 storeys, in whitewashed rubble stone with large quoins to angles, red brick heads and dressings to openings, slated roof and red brick end stacks. Long facade with two gabled dormers breaking eaves at sill level, paired casements to left, missing to right. Ground floor has central door with window each side under attic dormers and a third window to extreme right. All openings boarded or replaced with late C20 12-pane windows. Evidence of upper storey windows being raised as blocked openings are visible below the present slate sills. R gable has blocked ground floor doorway L of centre.
Interior
Not inspected. Derelict at the time of inspection.
Reason for designation
Included as a traditional Carmarthenshire farmhouse, a secondary dwelling on the farmstead at Trefenty, and part of a group on this important gentry farm.
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