Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
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Pontardulais, Swansea, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 4 April 1975
- Locality
- Pontarddulais
- Community
- Pontardulais
- Unitary authority
- Swansea
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.71549, -4.03479
- Cadw reference
- 11194
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 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Set back from the road at the SE of a bend, between neighbouring buildings.
History
Two-unit, direct-entry cottage with hall and outer room. c1800, extended later. Subsidiary small dwelling to right end.
Exterior
Single storey and attic C18-type of cottage, on a roughly E-W axis, formerly two cottages. Rubble stone, covered in roughcast render, with traditional Welsh thatched roof. Taller range to N, with higher eaves and ridges and large roughcast stack to S end. West frontage has modern gabled porch to centre, heightened in 2002, with small 8-pane horned timber sashes with stone sills and plain reveals to each side. S gable end has small attic light with timber lintel. Lower range to S is slightly recessed with single horned sash to W frontage, with stone sill. Stack to S end in painted roughcast. Modern ground floor projections to E behind both ranges, and small modern extensions to N and S ends. S extension is almost full-height with Welsh slate gabled roof and painted timber barge-board.
Interior
Not inspected.
Reason for designation
Included as a rare survival of a traditional cottage type for the area, and for its thatched roof - the last in the parish.
Nearby in the register
- Hope Independent ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Wall and Railings at Hope Independent ChapelNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- The War MemorialCommemorativeunder 1 mi
- Neuadd-fachDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.