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
26963
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
19/09/2002
Date of Amendment
19/09/2002
Name of Property
Hen-efail
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Llangyniew
Town
Locality
Cynhinfa
Easting
309545
Northing
311517
Street Side
Location
Reached by a lane nearly opposite the farm of Groed-ddu, 2 km south-west of the village of Pontrobert.
Description
Broad Class
Agriculture and Subsistence
Period
History
Probably C18. A nearby house, now named Weeg Smithy, is marked on the C19 County Series Ordnance Survey as Efail Newydd, and Hen-efail possibly obtained its name when superseded by this.
In 1849 this cottage (unnamed) was recorded as that of a smallholding of 5 acres held under the Rev. John Williams.
Exterior
Hen-efail is a two-unit cottage of 1½ storeys ranging south-west/north-east, with its chimney at the south-west gable end. Uncoursed quasi-rubble stone, slate roof. A third unit to the north-east has a slightly lower roof, the latter now covered in corrugated steel sheeting (a few slates surviving). Lean-to calf-house at right (north-east) with corrugated roof; small stone-walled enclosure at its front lacking gate.
At front (south-east elevation) there is a baffle-entry doorway at the left, and two windows with timber lintels. Two dormer windows (with slate lean-to roofs and cheeks) aligned with the windows below . In the additional bay to the right is a small casement window and a door, both with timber lintels.
At rear there is a slight projection of the bread oven at the side of the main chimney. One window at rear, also one in apex of north-east gable.
Interior
Large hearth at south-west end with baffle-entry to its left and a large bread oven built into the right side. Timber-framed partition between units and also between the house and the outer unit which may have been the smithy.
The outer unit (to north-east) until recently lacked an upper floor, but is likely to have had one originally as there is a loft window.
Reason for designation
A late vernacular stone walled cottage with workshop (taken to be a smithy) and accommodation for animals, which has retained much of its character.
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