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II  

Designated  

02/08/1995  

02/08/1995  

Ty'n-y-Corn  

 

Carmarthenshire  

Cynwyl Gaeo  

 

Saron  

266882  

249127  

 

Situated on steep wooded N slope of the Twrch Valley, reached by track off Ffarmers-Llandewi Brefi by-road.  

Domestic  

 

Early C19, roof raised later to make two full storeys. Shown on 1841 Tithe Map.  

Colourwashed rubble 3-bay front, offset to right. Slate roof, wooden soffits. Broad rendered gable chimney-stacks. Late C19 4-pane horned sashes (smaller to first floor), timber lintels above, stone lintels below. Boarded central door, concrete lintel. Two small rear single pane windows with stone lintels. C20 window to ground floor left. Later lower former lofted stable to left, upper 4-pane window rising to eaves, modified 4-pane horned sash to ground floor left, boarded door with concrete lintel. Left end with boarded loft door, timber lintel. Window below to left with stone lintel. Four pane window to rear rising to eaves. Later single storey building to right, probably former cowshed: the downslope half is ruined, the rest remodelled as a store, the sloping asbestos sheet roof replacing a pitched one.  

Complete wickerwork fireplace hood to left hand ground floor room (boxed in at first floor level); the hood is formed from a basket-work pyramid on a beam resting on four courses of stone set above the actual fireplace.  

Good unspoilt early C19 former farmhouse.