Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
11194
Building Number
24
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
04/04/1975
Date of Amendment
17/01/2006
Name of Property
Y Bwthyn
Address
24 Caecerrig Road
Location
Unitary Authority
Swansea
Community
Pontardulais
Town
Locality
Pontarddulais
Easting
259526
Northing
203823
Street Side
SE
Location
Set back from the road at the SE of a bend, between neighbouring buildings.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Two-unit, direct-entry cottage with hall and outer room. c1800, extended later. Subsidiary small dwelling to right end.
Exterior
Single storey and attic C18-type of cottage, on a roughly E-W axis, formerly two cottages. Rubble stone, covered in roughcast render, with traditional Welsh thatched roof. Taller range to N, with higher eaves and ridges and large roughcast stack to S end. West frontage has modern gabled porch to centre, heightened in 2002, with small 8-pane horned timber sashes with stone sills and plain reveals to each side. S gable end has small attic light with timber lintel. Lower range to S is slightly recessed with single horned sash to W frontage, with stone sill. Stack to S end in painted roughcast. Modern ground floor projections to E behind both ranges, and small modern extensions to N and S ends. S extension is almost full-height with Welsh slate gabled roof and painted timber barge-board.
Interior
Not inspected.
Reason for designation
Included as a rare survival of a traditional cottage type for the area, and for its thatched roof - the last in the parish.
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