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
26742
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
08/07/2002
Date of Amendment
08/07/2002
Name of Property
Pontcowin
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Carmarthenshire
Community
Newchurch and Merthyr
Town
Carmarthen
Locality
Bancyfelin
Easting
233213
Northing
219076
Street Side
Location
Situated at the end of a track some 450m N of the former A40 and approximately 1 km NE of Bancyfelin.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Farmhouse, probably former gentry house, marked on the 1841 Tithe map as Bontcowin and occupied by John Thomas. Occupied by Arthur Thomas, farmer in 1926. The main range to left is said to date from 1620, the service range to right from 1810. The front range has Regency to early Victorian tripartite sashes.
Exterior
Farmhouse, 2 parallel ranges. Front range whitewashed stucco with slate close eaved roof and 3 small brick chimneys. Two-storey, 3-window main part and one-window service range, added later as there is a straight joint. Single roof. Hornless 12-pane sashes above, tripartite 4-12-4-pane sashes below and door central to main part in red brick late C19 gabled porch. Porch has elliptical arched doorway and shaped bargeboards. Late C19 5-panel door with 5-pane overlight, the panes arch-headed. Slate sills. Service range has door in right end wall. Front garden enclosed in low whitewashed rubble wall with slate coping and hooped late C19 railings with matching gate.
Rear range of whitewashed rubble stone, similar length, but no straight joint. Single roof with 3 brick stacks, that to left truncated. Main part to right has 5 horned 12-pane sashes above, irregularly spaced, one to ground floor right, and one to left, the left one not aligned with windows above. Between is added brick lean-to porch with board door and slate roof. Service part to left has board door and then one similar sash window each floor. All openings have stone voussoirs and slate sills. Door in end wall of service range.
Interior
Not inspected.
Reason for designation
Included, notwithstanding deteriorating condition, as a substantial farmhouse with earlier C19 front of special architectural character.
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