Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
The Edwinsford Arms
Talley, Carmarthenshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 1 March 1995
- Locality
- Talley
- Community
- Talley
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.97627, -3.98756
- Cadw reference
- 15770
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 1860 "41. Caermathen." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Prominently located in the centre of Talley village alongside the B4302.
History
Public House built for the Edwinsford estate shown on 1839 Tithe map.
Exterior
Early C19 public house, formerly belonging to the Edwinsford Estate. Rendered painted walls, hipped slate roof, wide wooden soffits. Rendered slightly projecting end chimney stacks. High plinth. 2-storey 3-window symmetrical facade. 12-pane horned sash windows, upper centre window reduced at later date and narrow 8-pane sash inserted. Concrete sills. Ground floor windows set under blind elliptical arches. Later central porch, rendered with pitched slate roof and bargeboard. Round-arched doorway to porch with raised lugged cemented architrave. Plain double boarded doors. Modern extension set back to right hand side. Whitewashed rubble left hand return elevation with 2 sashes as front and 16-pane horned sash to rear annexe. Whitewashed rubble rear elevation with contemporary 2-storey wing to right and outshut to left under catslide roof. Rendered gable chimney stack to wing. Half-hipped dormer to left with stone cheeks and 9-pane hornless sash. Fixed 9-pane upper window to right. Later whitewashed rubble extension to left with upper 9-pane hornless sash. Projecting single storey wing to right hand side.
Reason for designation
An imposing Regency inn with Neoclassical allusions.
Nearby in the register
- Telephone Call-box at road junction set against wall of Pretoria HouseCommunicationsunder 1 mi
- Y PlasDomesticunder 1 mi
- Ruin of Talley AbbeyReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Talley AbbeyAbbeyunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.