Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pantyffynnon Isaf
Cynwyl Elfed, Carmarthenshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 19 September 2000
- Locality
- Hermon
- Town
- Carmarthen
- Community
- Cynwyl Elfed
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.94476, -4.37540
- Cadw reference
- 23994
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
Situated some 1km S of the centre of Hermon, down a track off the E side of the B4333.
History
Earlier C19 farmhouse and attached outbuilding.
Exterior
House and outbuilding in line, whitewashed rubble stone. Farmhouse has slate roof and one rebuilt red brick chimney to left, the other chimney removed. Double-fronted low two-storey facade offset to right. Two 4-pane horned sashes each floor and door between. Upper windows under eaves are shorter, lower openings have cemented heads, possibly timber lintels, and door has a shallow-curved projecting drip over. C20 door. Slate sills. Rear has added rubble stone lean-to.
Outbuilding (probably cowhouse) is single-storey with roof partly of corrugated iron and asbestos, partly of slate. Door with timber lintel and tiny window to left of centre. An addition on the right end is in rubble stone with door adjoining original range. Red brick angle quoins. Rear has C20 brick milking parlour and door with timber lintel to left.
Interior
Interior not available for inspection.
Reason for designation
Included as a little altered traditional farmhouse with outbuilding in line, of a type once characteristic of the region, now rare.
Nearby in the register
- BlaencerdinDomesticunder 1 mi
- WaunyrhafodDomesticunder 1 mi
- Toll CottageTransportunder 1 mi
- Nantclawdd IsafDomestic1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.