Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Ty'n-y-ffynnon
Ynysddu, Caerphilly, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 16 September 1999
- Locality
- Mynydd Grug
- Community
- Ynysddu
- Unitary authority
- Caerphilly
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.61125, -3.14664
- Cadw reference
- 22321
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 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
High on the S slope of the Sirhowy Valley above Wattsville, reached by the mountain road running below the crest of Mynydd Grug and then down a farm track.
History
Probably mostly early-mid C19. Appears on Machen Ttithe Map of 1841.
Exterior
Mountain farmhouse. Of limewashed stone with stone-tiled roof incorporating 3 half-dormers to front and corniced brick ridge and end stacks. Casement windows mostly with small panes and stone sills. 2-window range to ground floor with boarded door end right. To rear a catslide roof over outshut with curtailed roof to 2-storey end bay on right; this has a 16-pane first floor casement window and boarded door below. Attached to front is a rectangular rubble wall with wicket gate creating a small courtyard; attached to right and stepped down is a small barn bay with doorway and ventilation slit.
Reason for designation
Listed as an uncommon survival in this area of a small regional mountain farmstead retaining almost all its original exterior fabric and character.
Nearby in the register
- Former Penllwyn Tramroad Viaduct at Nine Mile PointTransportunder 1 mi
- Church of St JohnReligious, Ritual and Funerary1 mi
- House Platforms to W of Mynydd MachenHouse Platform1 mi
- War Memorial within Railed EnclosureCommemorative1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.