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
81184
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
13/06/2003
Date of Amendment
13/06/2003
Name of Property
East farm-range at East House Farm
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Carmarthenshire
Community
Laugharne Township
Town
Locality
Laugharne
Easting
230601
Northing
207709
Street Side
Location
The farm lies on the southern edge of the reclaimed land of East Marsh, close to the dunes of Laugharne Burrows, due S of Laugharne. The barn range forms the western side of the courtyard.
Description
Broad Class
Agriculture and Subsistence
Period
History
The farmhouse is dated 1810, with an inscription that records ''''This house and offices were erected by G. P. Watkins esq.''''. The context for the construction of the farm appears to be the reclamation and enclosure of the marsh, and its colonisation by a series of new farmsteads in the early years of the C19 (the nearby Hurst House is date 1798, its model farm is of 1828). The farm-buildings represent a tightly planned group laid out as a model farm, and although the ranges appear to have been constructed at slightly different times, the distinctive courtyard layout is clearly shown in the Tithe Map of 1842.
Exterior
The farm buildings are ranged roud 3 sides of a courtyard, with the house placed centrally in the N range. The E range comprises a series of sheds, distinctively built with mono-pitched roof against a high enclosing wall. They were presumably mainly intended for storage or workshop space, and there is a wash-house or brew-house at the N end of the range. Doors (5 in all) and windows (3) are all immediately below the eaves line; the roof-line continues across a covered bay in the SE corner, where it abuts the storeyed building in the cow-house range. External doorway from the yard within this covered this covered way. Wash-house or brew-house has tall axial chimney with doorway to its R, and a window at each side.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed as an integral part of a farm group which is an exceptionally well-preserved example of a model farmstead with a precise historical context in ambitious agricultural improvement at the beginning of the C19. It clearly demonstrates a mixed agricultural economy in a series of purpose-designed buildings unified by coherent planning in an enclosed yard, and by strong regional character in design and construction.
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