Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
82222
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
28/11/2003
Date of Amendment
28/11/2003
Name of Property
Cowshed, Stable, Pigsties, Brewery and Worker's House at Llwyn-yr-eos Farm
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Cardiff
Community
St. Fagans
Town
Cardiff
Locality
Museum of Welsh Life, St Fagans
Easting
311593
Northing
177044
Street Side
N
Location
One of the buildings displayed as a part of the Llwyn-yr-eos Farmstead in the Museum of Welsh Life.
Description
Broad Class
Education
Period
History
Built in c1890 with the cottage added in c1900. This was when the farm went over from arable to dairy and the cowsheds and pigsties date from then. The farm remained tenanted until the 1980s, and became an exhibit of the Museum of Welsh Life in 1989. It is furnished and displayed as a very complete Vale of Glamorgan farmstead of the 1930s.
Exterior
Whitewashed stone rubble with Welsh slate roofs, some of the pen walling is in brick, red brick chimneys. The yard elevation has the heavy horse stable on the left, central door with small casement window on either side and above. Taking-in door to hayloft on rear wall. Worker's house to the left of this with door and single window as before. Lean-to kitchen on rear with tall brick stack.
Accommodation for pigs and the brewery are beyond.
Attached single storey cowhouse range behind the stable. This has two doors and four windows and then goes into a modern extension.
Interior
In very unaltered condition with original fittings.
Reason for designation
Included for group value as part of the very complete Llwyn-yr-eos Farmstead.
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