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
26496
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
30/04/2002
Date of Amendment
30/04/2002
Name of Property
Bryn-rhos
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Swansea
Community
Penllergaer
Town
Swansea
Locality
Penllergaer
Easting
262058
Northing
197707
Street Side
E
Location
Situated on the S side of the farmyard just E of the A483 some 1.7 km S of junction 47 on the M4 motorway.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Small earlier to mid C19 estate farmhouse and 3-sided farm court, built for the Penllergare estate. House is hipped-roofed in late Georgian manner as were the 3 ranges originally, altered to gables in later C19.
Exterior
Farmhouse, whitewashed rubble stone with hipped deep-eaved slate roof and end-wall stacks, roughcast W end stack, small brick E stack. Flat eaves supported on metal brackets, possibly an alteration. N front to farmyard has 3x16-pane cambered-headed sashes to first floor, ground floor 20-pane sash to left and smaller casement-pair to right with 10-10 small panes, and centre half-glazed door under added timber glazed hood. S front to garden has late C19 4-pane sashes with stone voussoirs to cambered heads and painted slate sills. Centre window is blank, over door with cambered head in added porch. Windowless E end. Lean-to on W end with 2 storeys, low casement-pair window under eaves to left and two ground floor casement pairs on W side, one on S end, with brick voussoirs to cambered heads. Small 1-storey outbuilding attached at NE corner.
Interior
Centre passage plan with main rooms on S front, staircase set to W side of passage with 6-panel door to rear hall adjoining. Rear has narrow kitchen NW with pine joists, and former tack-room NE.
Reason for designation
Included as a well-preserved example of a small earlier to mid C19 estate farmhouse, part of a little-altered estate farm group.
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