Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Cart-House to S of former Blacksmith's Shop
Talley, Carmarthenshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 8 July 1966
- Locality
- Talley
- Community
- Talley
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.97531, -3.98293
- Cadw reference
- 10963
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 N.
History
Associated with Thomas Lewis ( 1759-1842 ), Methodist Hymnist and Blacksmith who worked the adjacent smithy and who was a founder of nearby Esgairnant Chapel in 1806.
Exterior
Mid/late C19. Single storey, small rubble built cart-house. Slate roof, projecting eaves. Elliptically-headed cart entry to left with dressed stone voussoirs (doors missing). Window to right with flat stone voussoired head and 6-light casement. Rubble rear lean-to.
With its adjacent smithy, an attractive roadside group.
Nearby in the register
- Former Blacksmith's ShopIndustrialunder 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.