Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Granary at Ty'n y Cellar
Margam, Neath Port Talbot, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Water Street, Port Talbot, Margam, Neath Port Talbot, designated on 25 April 2000.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 25 April 2000
- Locality
- Water Street
- Town
- Port Talbot
- Community
- Margam
- Unitary authority
- Neath Port Talbot
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.53724, -3.72614
- Cadw reference
- 23289
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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)
- 1907 · 248 Pontypridd (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1930 · OS Popular Edition 1919-1947 (National Library of Scotland)
Cadw's description
Location
Part of the farm complex at Ty'n y Cellar. The S gable end of the range faces the lane which leads to Kenfig industrial estate. The house is to the E.
History
Constructed between 1876 and 1897 as part of a remodelling of Ty'n y Cellar farm.
Exterior
Two-storey 3-bay cart shed and granary of snecked rock-faced stone under a pan-tile roof. Orientated N-S, the front facing E. Three full-height openings to the lower storey under a continuous lintel. The R bay is divided off by a partition wall. The upper storey has 3 loft hatch openings under segmental voussoir heads, boarded below and glazed above. External stone steps rise up against the N gable end with a planked door under a stone voussoir head leading into the loft. No openings to S gable end or W wall.
Interior
The lower storey is open; no access to loft.
Reason for designation
Listed as an unaltered component of a planned Victorian farm. Group value with house and other farm buildings at Ty'n y Cellar.
Nearby in the register
- Cart Shed, Stable and Cow-House at Ty'n y CellarAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Ty'n y Cellar and adjoining BarnDomesticunder 1 mi
- Former Cow-house at Ty'n y CellarAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Ty'n-y-Cellar Standing StoneStanding Stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.