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
26740
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
08/07/2002
Date of Amendment
08/07/2002
Name of Property
Derllys Court
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Carmarthenshire
Community
Newchurch and Merthyr
Town
Carmarthen
Locality
Merthyr
Easting
235528
Northing
220139
Street Side
Location
Situated approximately 800m N of the A40 and some 800m SE of the Church of St Martin at Merthyr.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Country house rebuilt in earlier to mid C19. An ancient mansion of Vaughan family in C17, passed to Williams of Edwinsford in 1725 and tenanted. Ruinous by early C19, part of the house said to have been made into a barn. In 1814 the Edwinsford agent asked David Davies, carpenter, to draw up plans for either making a new house of the barn or building a new house. A new house was decided on, using old materials, but it is uncertain if it was built then, or slightly later. The buildings are marked as now on the 1838 Tithe map. The schedule shows a holding of 273 acres (110.5 hectares) occupied by David Phillips and owned by Lady Diana Ann Hamlyn Williams who owned ten farms in the Merthyr community totalling some 752 acres (304.5 hectares). The barn, presumably part of the old house, had a datestone of 1660 and 1850, but was burnt down in 1970s. Occupied by D. Thomas, farmer, 1926.
Exterior
House, earlier C19, stucco with close-eaved slate roof and red brick end stacks. Three storeys, 3-window range of 4-pane sashes, the upper ones square. Centre 6-panel door in lean-to rendered porch. Lean-to on left end wall with door to front. Outshut rear and 2 parallel 2-storey, 4-window rear ranges linked to NE corner of original house. Whitewashed rubble with brick heads to windows.
Interior
Not inspected.
Reason for designation
Included for its architectural interest as a late Georgian style country house.
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