Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Cefn Trenfa
Cilycwm, Carmarthenshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 29 November 1995
- Locality
- Cefn Trenfa
- Community
- Cilycwm
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.02793, -3.82496
- Cadw reference
- 16991
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
Situated some 2km S of Cilycwm, on E facing hillside,
History
Later C18 gentry house. Estate was owned by Rev. Lewis Lewis (c1682-1780) but settled by marriage c1750 on Capt Marmaduke Bowen of Gurrey. Passed to Lewis Lloyd Bowen and then Lewis Bowen, living there 1812, when the house was advertised to let, having 2 parlours, servants room, kitchen, dairy and offices on ground floor, and four bedrooms and large closet upstairs. Lewis Bowen's brother Rev William Bowen (d1833) was the last Bowen owner, by 1845 it was owned by the Neuadd Fawr estate, and occupied by the Rev John Williams.
Exterior
Colourwashed roughcast with slate roof, and stone end stacks. Two-storey, three-window range with gabled centre. Lower service range to right with N end stack. Outshut rear. Two-storey, three-window front with platband. Lunette in centre gable over first floor arched sash with radiating-bar head, flanked by blank panels in schematic Palladian window arrangement. Centre door in slate gabled open porch. Small-paned sash windows each floor each side. Colourwashed rubble stone left end wall. Service range has two small-paned front windows to ground floor and N end door.
Interior
Interior not accessible.
Reason for designation
A well preserved late C18 gentry house with unusual architectural features.
Nearby in the register
- Barn to N of of Cefn TrenfaAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Outbuildings to N of Cefn TrenfaAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Roman Road c. 250m SSW of Gilwen FarmRoadunder 1 mi
- ErrydDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.