Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Cowhouse to SE. of Glanyravon Ddu Ganol Farmhouse
Talley, Carmarthenshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 8 July 1966
- Locality
- Halfway
- Community
- Talley
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.95898, -3.97574
- Cadw reference
- 10960
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1860 "41. Caermathen." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Situated alongside the Halfway-Cwmdu minor road, standing SW of the present
farmhouse.
History
Important early Non-conformist site. 5 local Methodists met here in 1735, their numbers increasing to 60 by 1743. Preachers included Howell Harris and Daniel Rowland. Their meeting place was apparently this cowshed, the then home of Mary Griffiths. At her death in 1785, the Methodists met elsewhere. Supplanted by present farmhouse c1840 and long used for agricultural purposes.
Exterior
Early/mid C18 single storey whitewashed rubble range. Corrugated iron roof, chimneys removed. Low plinth. Former dwelling to right; byre to left. Central doorway to house ( probably inserted in the C19 ). Timber lintel, planked door. Flanking small windows, both with timber lintels and ( broken ) casements. Blocked doorway to left. Door to right of byre elevation with timber lintel and planked door. 2 doorways to left with planked doors: timber lintel to right, concrete to left. S return elevation rebuilt c1950. Window with brick quoins and head, half-timbered gable. Ground floor and loft doors to N return elevation, timber lintels and planked doors. Half-timbered gable.
Interior
6 pairs of scarfed crucks. 3 pairs with collar beams. Pegged purlins. Later loft inserted.
Reason for designation
Listed for its scarfed cruck roof construction and important local history.
Nearby in the register
- Glanyravon Ddu Ganol FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Barn at Glanyrafon Ddu Ganol NW of FarmhouseAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Cwmdu Village HallDomesticunder 1 mi
- Telephone Call-box near Cwmdu Village HallCommunicationsunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.