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
81023
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
09/04/2003  
Date of Amendment
09/04/2003  
Name of Property
Blaen-cwm-gwaun-hendy, including attached agricultural range  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Carmarthenshire  
Community
Llanfynydd  
Town
 
Locality
Mynydd Figyn  
Easting
259643  
Northing
230472  
Street Side
 
Location
An isolated house reached down a farm road approximately 3.3km SSE of Abergorlech.  

Description


Broad Class
Domestic  
Period
 

History
Probably early C19 and shown on the 1840 Tithe map, but altered again in the late C19.  

Exterior
A longhouse comprising a 2-storey 2-window house with lower agricultural range to the L gable end and lower single-storey projection to the R gable end. Of rubble stone with slate roofs. The house has end roughcast stacks. The house has segmental-headed 4-pane sash windows in the lower storey and 2-pane sashes beneath the eaves, all offset to the R and with brick dressings. The entrance to the house is through a segmental headed boarded door at the R end of the agricultural range, which has a brick segmental head. Further L are stone camber-headed openings, comprising a single door, higher and wider cart shed doorway and a further lower door. The gable end is clad in corrugated iron sheets. On the R side of the house the lower projection has paired 4-pane sash windows beneath the eaves, and a further added shed with corrugated iron roof.  

Interior
Not inspected.  

Reason for designation
Listed as a rare surviving longhouse of unusually late date and demonstrating the longevity of a regional vernacular tradition.  

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