Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Ivy House
Llanfihangel Aberbythych, Carmarthenshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Maes-y-bont, Llanelli, Llanfihangel Aberbythych, Carmarthenshire, designated on 27 August 1999.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 27 August 1999
- Locality
- Maes-y-bont
- Town
- Llanelli
- Community
- Llanfihangel Aberbythych
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.82924, -4.08211
- Cadw reference
- 22198
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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 · 230 Ammanford (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 230 Ammanford (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
About 50m west of the B4297 in the village of Maes-y-bont, nearly opposite to the village school. Short access lane.
History
This small farmhouse or cottage is first shown on the Tithe map of of Llanarthney in 1839. It was part of the estate of David Jones of Wern Farm, Llanarthney, but possibly then unoccupied.
Exterior
Early C19 two-window, two-storey small farmhouse or cottage built of white-painted rubble masonry. Slate roof, tile ridge. Rendered end-chimneys. Generous eaves and verge overhangs, with the bargeboards running outside the chimneys. Small open-fronted porch with slate roof and finial.
Sash windows in exposed frames above and below in front elevation: nine-pane above, four-pane below. The upper windows are in unequal-sashes without horns.
Reason for designation
Unspoilt early-C19 vernacular smallholder's farmhouse or cottage.
Nearby in the register
- Cairn 150m ESE of GarnbigRound Cairn1 mi
- BantwenDomestic1 mi
- Bont NewyddTransport1 mi
- Garn Limekiln No. I (northernmost in group)Industrial1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.