Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Dryslwyn-fawr Cowshed
Llanarthney, Carmarthenshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 19 May 1999
- Locality
- Dryslwyn
- Town
- Carmarthen
- Community
- Llanarthney
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.85817, -4.10149
- Cadw reference
- 21749
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
To the west side of the front yard of Dryslwyn-fawr.
History
Part of the Cawdor Estate model farm at Dryslwyn-fawr, mid-C19; it was not yet built at the time of the 1839 Tithe Map.
Exterior
A long low building in rubble local sandstone with limestone quoins and dressings, whitened at the front, which faces east to the yard. Slate roof with tile ridge. At both front and rear the arrangement of doors and windows has been altered. At front (the side at which livestock entered) doors and windows alternate regularly: low rectangular windows with cambered heads alternating with taller flat-headed doorways; at rear (the feeding walk side) most of the openings have been altered haphazardly but two slit windows and two typical Cawdor-estate windows remain, with flat-arch heads bearing against large impost stones.
Interior
The roof is of 16 bays, with collar beams bolted and strapped to the principals. Two purlins each side. The cattle stalls are replaced in concrete, and the feeding walk is on the west side. Original blue paving bricks for surface drainage.
Reason for designation
A good C19 estate cowshed, which is part of the remarkably complete model farm at Dryslwyn-fawr.
Nearby in the register
- Dryslwyn-fawr Cartshed and StablesAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Dryslwyn-fawr Former Stables RangeAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Dryslwyn-fawr PigstiesAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Dryslwyn-fawr FarmhouseAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.