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
6606
Building Number
12
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
17/01/1963
Date of Amendment
04/12/2001
Name of Property
12 Lamb & Flag Cottages (Former Lamb and Flag Inn)
Address
12 Heol Rheolau
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Ystradgynlais
Town
Swansea
Locality
Gwaunclawdd
Easting
280846
Northing
212435
Street Side
E
Location
Situated towards the lower end of terraced row at right angles to the Tawe, reached by a temporary bridge from the Rheolau Arms Inn.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
In 1801, when Thomas Malkin passed, Pentre'r Lamb was a settlement of two inns and a few houses with a small mine by the river, near the canal-head of the Swansea Canal. The Lamb and Flag Inn and the adjacent No 14, once Lamb and Flag farmhouse may have been originally part of one large house or inn.
Exterior
House, former inn, late C18 origins, much altered. White-painted render with slate close-eaved roof and rendered brick end stacks. Two storeys, three-window range of late C20 leaded hardwood windows. Ground floor has large casement pair each side of stuccoed enclosed porch with C20 door to left and C20 window to front. Half-glazed door within. First floor has window to left and 2 smaller windows to centre and right, with hinged top-lights. Ground floor windows have tooled stone sills, first floor windows without sills. Raised plinth. Rear right has NE long rubble stone wing with brick ridge stack, rear left has parallel rear range continued along rear of No 14, one-window with roof hipped at junction with NE range, and side wall chimney.
Interior
Not inspected.
Reason for designation
Included despite alterations as remnant of a small rural industrial/agricultural settlement illustrative of the early industrial history of the region.
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