Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Cwm-dwr
Llanwrda, Carmarthenshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 20 July 1999
- Locality
- Cwmdulais
- Town
- Llanwrda
- Community
- Llanwrda
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.97953, -3.88413
- Cadw reference
- 22022
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 on E side of A478 about 1 km N of Llanwrda church backing onto Dulais river.
History
Farmhouse, probably with C18 origins as shown by the large end chimney. There is a record of a gentry house on the site in the C17 at Cwmydwr including David Evans, ancestor of George Evans who was created Baron Carbery in 1715. Marked on 1837 Tithe Map as part of the estate of Charles Bishop of Dolgarreg, Myddfai.
Exterior
Farmhouse and outbuilding in line, rubble stone, formerly whitewashed, with slate roof and large roughcast external end stacks, larger to right. Two storeys, double fronted originally but with added first floor centre window. First floor has small-paned casement pair window each side and single casement with brick sides to centre. Timber lintels to original windows, concrete lintel to centre window. Ground floor 12-pane sash each side of C20 glazed door, stone voussoirs to all three openings. Rear is whitewashed with outshut to right half.
Attached to left is low whitewashed long outbuilding with corrugated iron roof. This has window to left, then door, then broad entry, then altered opening with window over blockwork.
Reason for designation
Included as a good example of a smaller traditional farmhouse with large chimney stacks indicating a C18 date, retaining vernacular character.
Nearby in the register
- Pound by churchyard of Church of St CwrdafAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Lychgate to Church of St CwrdafReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Church of Saint CwrdafReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- BorezellRecreationalunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.