Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Sychnant Cottage
Talgarth, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 14 August 1995
- Locality
- Talgarth
- Community
- Talgarth
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.99155, -3.20456
- Cadw reference
- 16318
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
Located on a platform site by the side of the road from Talgarth through a narrow dwm to Rhos fach.
Exterior
Farmhouse of the C17 with attached farm building now converted to Sychnant Cottage. The farmhouse is pebbledashed with slate roof. 'T'-plan, comprising a 3-bay range with main stack at the lower enc, and a rear range, probably contemporary, of 3 bays containing the service rooms, now kitchen. Central boarded door to cross passage, with parlour at uphill end heated by a gable stack with 2 diagonally set stone flues. A window with stone drip is set at the side of the stack. Three light windows with chamfered lintels and cut stops, and C19 raised and gabled dormers with 4-pane sashes. Rear wing has timber casement windows with drip stone hoods and a C19 door to the yard. Sychnant Cottage, originally a 3-bay cowhouse, has a doorway with a very heavy frame and boarded door, with recent cover strips, set against the house gable, indicating longhouse derivation. Added gable stack. Lean-to toilet.
Interior
Not accessible at time of inspection (July 1995). The lower gable stack, not opened up, is said to be large, with internal oven, and to have a blocked door leading into the former cowhouse. Chamfered cross beams to the parlour.
Reason for designation
Included as a good C17 farmhouse notwithstanding some alterations.
Nearby in the register
- Sychnant FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Llanelieu CourtDomesticunder 1 mi
- Monument in churchyard of church of St EllyweCommemorativeunder 1 mi
- Wall with Niche and inscribed stone, opposite Llanelieu CourtDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.