Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Gelli Galed Farmhouse
Crynant, Neath Port Talbot, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 4 June 1987
- Locality
- Treforgan
- Town
- Neath
- Community
- Crynant
- Unitary authority
- Neath Port Talbot
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.73197, -3.76031
- Cadw reference
- 11848
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
Approached from Treforgan up a forest track along the E side of Mynydd Marchywel. The farmhouse is set on an open hillside to S of woodland and overlooks the Dulais Valley.
History
Farmhouse c 1630 and later C17 with C18 extensions, partly remodelled in C19 with later cross range
Exterior
Farmhouse, low 2 storey 3 window E front, low rendered stacks; rendered and whitewashed rubble stone walls originally with long slated roof now mainly collapsed. Recessed 2-light casements and porch with pitched roof. N gable with corbelled chimney over ground floor. S end has cow house cross range projecting with ventilation slit low down in angle and collapsed slate roof orginally on A-frame trusses. C19 cartshed to W end. Rubble stone walled enclosure with tree-lined approach.
Interior
Not accessible as roof has collapsed over most of the building. Interior of main house said to include chamfered main beams to ground floor (older parts with broach stops), arched "porch" door through S wall of hall flanking original flue and remains of turning staircase. Stone flagged floors throughout, D-frame trusses, large chimney breasts within gable end walls. Later lean-to extension along W side contained C18 dairy with stone slab benches.
Reason for designation
Included despite its deteriorating condition for its historic interest as a largely C17 farmhouse.
Nearby in the register
- Walls of barn to NW of Gelli Galed FarmhouseAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Chapel of ease to the Church of St MargaretReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Ynys-y-bont BridgeTransportunder 1 mi
- Mynydd March Hywel Round CairnRound Cairnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.