21093

 

II  

Designated  

12/01/1999  

12/01/1999  

Twll y Car Farmhouse and farm-range  

 

Carmarthenshire  

Llannon  

 

Twll y Car Farm  

255534  

210853  

 

West side of minor road from Llannon village to Capel Pen-twyn. Farmhouse at left of small farmyard with barn range and hayloft on opposite side.  

Transport  

 

Small farmhouse with farm-building in line, forming part of a small farmstead. Probably early C19.  

Small farm house with cowhouse and stable in line. House of two units; two storeys and two windows. Local stone, limewashed. Slate roof with tile ridge and end-chimneys of stone, the one at right collapsed. No rainwater goods. The whole fenestration is strongly offset to the left, and there may be a lost third ground storey window behind a later flat-roofed brick building at front. The door is between the windows and offset further to left. Sash windows each of four panes with stone sills. Small walled forecourt to the house with cast iron gate between piers with brick copings. Downhill at right is a single storey cowhouse or stable and shed in tandem, on the same frontage line. Rubble masonry, whitened. Slate roof with tile ridge. Lean-to lower roof against the downhill gable end. The room adjacent to the house is of two windows with door offset to left between them. Wide door, boarded; windows with transom and opening lights above; three panes beneath. Lower part of this building has a small window at left and door at right; boarded door with large gap at foot. Brick shed at front of the house. Concrete wall at left supporting a lean-to shed.  

Common small farmhouse plan with passage leading to stairs at rear. Parlour at left, kitchen at right with cast-iron kitchen range.  

Listed as a well preserved small Carmarthenshire farmhouse with attached farm buildings.