Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Former Blacksmith's Shop
Talley, Carmarthenshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Industrial
- Date of designation
- 8 July 1966
- Locality
- Talley
- Community
- Talley
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.97539, -3.98308
- Cadw reference
- 10962
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
Located on E side of Talley village, alongside the B4302 opposite Dyffryn -ig. Associated cart-house immediately to S.
History
Associated with Thomas Lewis ( 1759-1842 ), Blacksmith and Methodist
Hymnist.
Exterior
Mid/late C19. Single storey, rubble built with slate roof.
Dressed stone chimney-stack to right with stone tabling. Doorway to right, cambered head with stone voussoirs; divided stable type boarded door. 2 windows to right, heads as above. Later 9-pane casements to both with top hung upper lights.
With the adjacent cart-house, an attractive roadside group.
Nearby in the register
- Cart-House to S of former Blacksmith's ShopDomesticunder 1 mi
- The Edwinsford ArmsCommercialunder 1 mi
- Telephone Call-box at road junction set against wall of Pretoria HouseCommunicationsunder 1 mi
- Y PlasDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.