Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Date of Designation
19/01/2011
Date of Amendment
19/01/2011
Name of Property
Whitehall
Unitary Authority
Carmarthenshire
Community
Llanfihangel Rhos-y-Corn
Location
On the north side of the main road through the village of Brechfa, to the west of a junction with the minor road leading north to New Inn.
History
Probably mid C19th, built as a small village house. Shown on 1889 1st edition OS map as a pub called the White Hall.
Exterior
A 2-storey 3-window house house with continuous rear outshut under a catslide roof. Of whitened rubble stone and slate roof with roughcast end stacks and similar stack to the outshut in the R gable end. Openings are offset to the L of centre and have cambered heads in the lower storey. The central doorway has a boarded door. The windows are 2-pane sashes with margin lights, beneath the eaves in the upper storey. The L gable end is roughcast. The R gable end has a replaced window upper R in the outshut, placed behind the line of a lower rubble wall abutting the gable end.
Reason for designation
Included for its special architectural interest as a good example of a regional vernacular house retaining traditional character. One of the few surviving historic buildings within the village of Brechfa, this is also a relatively rare example of a well-preserved village house of the nineteenth century.
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