Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
16987
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
29/11/1995
Date of Amendment
29/11/1995
Name of Property
Abergwenlais
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Carmarthenshire
Community
Cilycwm
Town
Locality
Cilycwm
Easting
276059
Northing
239187
Street Side
Location
Situated at end of lane running E and NE from Cilycwm to Pont Newydd road, from junction some 500m N of Pont Newydd.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Later C19 large farmhouse, probably rebuilt for the Neuadd Fawr estate, which acquired the Abergwenlais estate from the Price family in 1856.
Exterior
Rubble stone with slate eaves roof, and stone end stacks. Large two-storey, three-window range of 16-pane hornless sashes with stone voussoirs and stone sills. Concrete lintel to ground floor right. Centre 5-panel door with traceried overlight. Windowless left end wall with 2 blocked loft lights. Roughcast rear with similar 16-pane sashes and C20 lean-to porch. Right end has one ground floor window and two blocked loft lights.
Front garden enclosed by low stone walls.
Interior
Double depth plan. Very large kitchen fireplace with timber lintel and two bread ovens.
Reason for designation
Included as a representative example in the region of a large well-proportioned C19 farmhouse, still in Georgian tradition
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