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
82889
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
18/06/2004
Date of Amendment
18/06/2004
Name of Property
Llethr
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Carmarthenshire
Community
Llandovery
Town
Locality
Blaenos
Easting
275015
Northing
235132
Street Side
Location
Situated some 400m down lane running W from Heol Rhos at Croesffordd around back of Banc y Garth.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Blaenos estate small farmhouse, probably built in 1860s as similar to Croesffordd nearby which is dated 1867. Not marked on first edition OS map of 1820s. In the picturesque cottage style favoured for estate building at the time. The Blaenos estate was owned by the Jones banking family in the C19.
Exterior
Small farmhouse, rubble stone with slate deep-eaved roof and end chimneys, the right one rendered, the left one rebuilt in red brick. One and a half storeys, double-fronted with asymmetrical spacing, the door closer to right window. Casement-pair windows with stone voussoirs, keystones, and stone sills, one each side to ground floor with stone hoodmoulds, one each side above breaking eaves in small stone gables with fretted bargeboards. Broad front doorway with stone voussoirs and keystones, plank door with cover strips. Porch with similar bargeboards to gable but C20 brick sides. Ground floor right window has incised finely-written 'Edwd Jones Esqr' and bird beneath, on one pane.
Interior
Centre passage plan with kitchen to left and parlour to right. Tiled hall and kitchen floors, boarded hall dado. Kitchen has enclosed stairs on back wall and fireplace with earlier C20 range. Joisted ceiling. Board doors.
Reason for designation
Included as a mid Victorian small estate farmhouse with characteristic picturesque detail.
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