Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Fonmon Cottage
Llantwit Major, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 10 September 1982
- Locality
- Llantwit Major
- Town
- Cowbridge / Y Bont-Faen
- Community
- Llantwit Major
- Unitary authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.40934, -3.48507
- Cadw reference
- 13279
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
About 150m north-west of the centre of Llantwit Major at the junction with High Street.
History
Circa 1700 village house, once thatched with a central doorway and gabled porch. Extended prior to listing in 1982, subsequently extended again and completely re-windowed with plastic units in 1988.
Exterior
Two storey house with stone walls and slate gable roof; large stack to SW and slender stone stack to NE. Front or SE wall with stuccoed cladding; from SW end, narrow single light rectangular opening to cupboard above bench; ground floor sash window with glazing bars and horns (internal window seat) with C20 two-light casement with top opening light above; centre ground floor sash window with glazing bars and horns, in former doorway; fourthly, window with glazing bars and horn on ground floor and two-light window with top opening light above. Single storey service wing with modern windows and slate asbestos roof to right hand. To SW, lean-to with half-glazed door in front wall and low, two storey wing behind, with stack to SW end and small sash window on ground floor with smaller single-light first floor window above it. Lean-to behind this in rear elevation; rounded SW walls. Rear elevation to main building with rectangular slit opening to stair.
Interior
Interior not inspected but said to retain joist ceilings, south fireplace with flanking cupboards; arched doorway with voussoirs in partition wall.
Reason for designation
Included, notwithstanding modern alterations, as a historic village house.
Nearby in the register
- Bethel Baptist ChurchReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Court HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Old Swan Inn PHCommercialunder 1 mi
- Telephone Call-Box outside Old White Hart P.H.Communicationsunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.