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Y Bwthyn

Pontardulais, Swansea, Wales

A Grade II listed building in Pontarddulais, Pontardulais, Swansea, designated on 4 April 1975.

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1913) covering the location of Y Bwthyn, Pontardulais, Swansea, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1913), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Sheet 10. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. . (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1898 · 230 Ammanford (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1898 · 230 Ammanford (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1920 · Sheet 100. Llanelly. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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Cadw's description

Set back from the road at the SE of a bend, between neighbouring buildings.

Two-unit, direct-entry cottage with hall and outer room. c1800, extended later. Subsidiary small dwelling to right end.

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.

Not inspected.

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Designated Historic Asset GIS Data, The Welsh Historic Environment Service (Cadw), 2026-09-07, licensed under the Open Government Licence http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/ Cadw, the Welsh Historic Environment Service · Open Government Licence v3.0
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