Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Village Pound
Ilston, Swansea, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 19 July 2000
- Locality
- Lunnon
- Town
- Swansea
- Community
- Ilston
- Unitary authority
- Swansea
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.58812, -4.09858
- Cadw reference
- 23542
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
At the side of a lane at the centre of Lunnon, behind Big House Farmhouse.
History
Possibly contemporary with Big House Farmhouse of c1700, to the farmyard entrance of which it is adjacent. Marked as 'pound' on the 1877 map.
Exterior
A small animal pound in coursed axe-dressed local limestone, approximately oval in plan with a gateway at the north end. The walls of the pound are about 1½m. high. Simple iron gate.
Reason for designation
Included as a rare and well preserved village pound for the retention of stray animals.
Nearby in the register
- Big House FarmhouseAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Lime KilnIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Park Mill with Miller's House, Carpenters Shops and SmithyIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Mount Pisgah ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.