Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Castell
Cynwyl Gaeo, Carmarthenshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Crugybar, Caeo, Cynwyl Gaeo, Carmarthenshire, designated on 20 January 1998.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 20 January 1998
- Locality
- Crugybar
- Town
- Caeo
- Community
- Cynwyl Gaeo
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.02834, -3.94411
- Cadw reference
- 19236
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1860 map "41. Caermathen." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1860 · 41. Caermathen. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Sheet 10. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. . (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 212 Llandovery (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 212 Llandovery (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
On S side of minor road about 2km SSW of Caio church, about 700m to E of junction of B4302 and A482.
History
Probably early-to-mid C19
Exterior
House. Single-storey. Corrugated roof covering; end chimney stacks. Roughcast symmetrical front, with central doorway (C20 panelled door), square 4-pane window to each side (shallow moulded hoods over openings). Sides and rear in rubble (painted). To L, former byre under corrugated sheet roof; end doorway. Small corrugated lean-to (R). Rear has full width stone outshut with slated and felted roof.
Interior
Said to have 2 rooms with kitchen in outshut; hardboard ceilings, boarded walls. Some lath and plaster visible. Victorian cast iron fireplaces, boarded doors.
Byre said to have exposed collared roof trusses; extensive areas of straw thatch mixed with gorse. Intermediate loft floor supported on beams with wide floor boards. Crude timber planked partition.
Reason for designation
A building in local vernacular tradition, retaining much overall character.
Nearby in the register
- Felin NewyddIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Barn Range at GlanyrannellAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- GlanyrannellDomesticunder 1 mi
- Cowshed at GlanyrannellAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.