Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Ton Farm
Merthyr Mawr, Bridgend, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Ton Farm, Merthyr Mawr, Bridgend, designated on 29 January 1999.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 29 January 1999
- Locality
- Ton Farm
- Community
- Merthyr Mawr
- Unitary authority
- Bridgend
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.48581, -3.61643
- Cadw reference
- 21236
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1637 · The fourth table of England. Cornub. Devonia, Somerset etc. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1865 · England and Wales. England No. 6. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1897 · 262 Pontypridd (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1897 · 262 Pontypridd (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Approximately 400m W of Merthyr Mawr church, set back from N side of a minor road from Merthyr Mawr village to Merthyr Mawr Warren
Interior
The lower storey is now a single room, with 3 stop-chamfered cross beams. The fireplace has a stop-chamfered lintel and added boiler and bread oven. To its R is a turning stone stair which has timber corbelling above it. The original gable-end doorway to the earlier house survives blocked in Ton Farm and has a Tudor head with stop-chamfer surround.
Reason for designation
Ton Farm and Ton Farm Cottage are included as a sub-medieval farmhouse retaining early plan form and detail.
Nearby in the register
- Ton Farm CottageDomesticunder 1 mi
- Former Saw MillIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Former Tithe BarnAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Pre-Norman Stones in ChurchyardCross baseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.