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.
Date of Designation
13/03/2003
Date of Amendment
13/03/2003
Name of Property
Pantyfen Isaf
Unitary Authority
Carmarthenshire
Community
Llanfihangel-ar-Arth
Locality
Llanfihangel ar Arth
Location
Approximately 0.6km E of the parish church, reached by private road E of the B4459.
History
Said to have been built in 1867 and first shown on the 1889 Ordnance Survey.
Exterior
A 2-storey 3-window farmhouse of rubble stone with larger quoins, and slate roof, incorporating a large panel of slates set diagonally, with stone end stacks. Openings are offset to the R side and have stone segmental heads. The central boarded door is within an added half-glazed porch. Horned sash windows are 12-pane in the lower storey, 9-pane above. Set back against the L gable end is a lower single-storey bakehouse, which has a boarded door (moved from the R gable end of the main house) with 6-pane horned sash window to its L. In the R gable end of the house is a segmental-headed doorway, with replaced door, to the R of a brick lean-to (roofless at the time of inspection). In the rear, where the ground level is higher, are 3 9-pane sash windows in the upper storey, a similar window lower R and a replaced 2-light casement offset from the centre. An added narrow external brick flue is R of centre. The bakehouse has added rear windows.
Reason for designation
Listed as a well-preserved C19 farmhouse, a type once characteristic of the district but now rarely well preserved.
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