Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Beast shelter at Ty-gwyn
Trevethin, Torfaen, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 29 May 1997
- Locality
- Pontnewynydd
- Town
- Pontypool
- Community
- Trevethin
- Unitary authority
- Torfaen
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.71348, -3.05275
- Cadw reference
- 18456
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 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
80m north west of Ty-Gwyn on the other side of Hospital Road.
History
A small early C19 Beast-house; contempory with the stable.
Exterior
Small early C19 beast house standing in open field, set end on to the slope. White-washed limestone rubble with corrugated metal roofing. Rectangular single cell plan with central doorway on the south wall, quite wide with a stilted arch head. Gable ends with ventilators in the gable. Rear wall blind.
Interior
Interior not available for inspection at time of resurvey (October 1996).
Reason for designation
Included for group value with the Ty-gwyn farmhouse and the stable.
Nearby in the register
- Stable at Ty-gwynAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Ty-gwynDomesticunder 1 mi
- Pont NewynyddTransportunder 1 mi
- Pont Newynydd (partly in the Trevethin community)No class recordedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.