Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
cow-shed at Cefn-Coed Mawr
Cynwyl Gaeo, Carmarthenshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 2 August 1995
- Locality
- Pumpsaint
- Community
- Cynwyl Gaeo
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.05563, -3.94938
- Cadw reference
- 16262
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 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Farm on W side of Cothi Valley, situated off lane leading from Pumpsaint village to Allt Cwm-cyfiog, N of Dolaucothi Home Farm. Cowshed on S side of yard fronting farmhouse.
History
Early C19 cowshed with integral lofted stable. Late C19 extensions and reroofing. Present farm arrangement shown on 1830 Ordnance Survey. 1841 owner, William Davys Harries: occupier, John Jones. Still in original use.
Exterior
Long whitewashed rubble-built single-storey cow-shed with integral lofted stable to E (downslope) end. Slate roof and slated barges. Eight-bay front: the two right-hand bays are later and have a lower roofline. Seven doorways to left, cambered stone voussoired heads, planked doors (the right-hand two are divided): the second and fourth from left blocked with 6-pane windows inserted. Six-pane window to right, head as above. Rubble left end, 2-light gable window, cast iron latticed glazing, head as above. Modified right end with small rubble pig-sties set back to right. Extensive C20 farm buildings to rear.
Interior
Late C19 collarbeam roof, iron cramps. Loft over stable.
Reason for designation
Group value with farmhouse and barn range, the whole forming a good representative example of an unspoilt upland farmstead.
Nearby in the register
- Barn Range at cefn-Coed MawrAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Cefn-Coed MawrDomesticunder 1 mi
- Stable Range at Dolaucothi FarmDomesticunder 1 mi
- Dolaucothi Home FarmDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.