Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
The Old Brewhouse
Cenarth, Carmarthenshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Cenarth, Carmarthenshire, designated on 2 March 1994.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 2 March 1994
- Community
- Cenarth
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.04511, -4.52420
- Cadw reference
- 14223
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1830 map "V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1860 · 41. Caermathen. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Sheet 10. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. . (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 194 Llangranog (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Situated in the yard of the Three Horseshoes Inn.
History
Before 1760 Mrs Powell, the sister of the Rev Daniel Rowlands of Llangeitho kept an inn 'near the church' at Cenarth, her husband was a blacksmith. In the early C19 the Three Horseshoes was rebuilt as a coaching inn by the Thomas family, innkeepers and blacksmiths, and a smithy stood nearby. The roof was covered in corrugated iron until the restoration.
Exterior
C18 cottage, possibly formerly an inn, later used as a brewhouse for the Three Horseshoes Inn, restored as an annexe to the inn 1992. Whitewashed rubble stone with long-straw thatched roof and whitewashed stone end stacks, larger to N. Two small front windows and centre stable door, all with timber lintels. Lean-to on N end. Broad rear wall opening with C20 double doors. Interior has preserved gorse underthatch, smoke-blackened, and three collar trusses with pegged joints. A N end, large chamfered timber lintel to broad fireplace with later inserted iron vat in brick base and bread oven. At S end a small fireplace.
Reason for designation
Group value with the Three Horseshoes Inn.
Nearby in the register
- The Three Horseshoes InnCommercialunder 1 mi
- PenybancDomesticunder 1 mi
- Gateway to ChurchyardReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Smithy CottageEducationunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.