Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Llwyn-du
Llangain, Carmarthenshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 4 December 2000
- Locality
- Llangain
- Town
- Carmarthen
- Community
- Llangain
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.81121, -4.35457
- Cadw reference
- 24449
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 to the E of the B4312 some 1km SW of the centre of the village of Llangain.
History
Smaller country house, probably a mid to later C19 enlargement of an early C19 house. It is mentioned in 1821-3 as occupied by Captain Henry Harding and in the 1830s as occupied by Frederick Philipps JP, (d 1838). Owned in 1906 by Charles Bankes Davies.
Exterior
Country house, stucco with hipped slate roof and rendered brick chimneys, one each end and one off-centre on main ridge. Eaves project with cyma-moulded brackets. Two-storey, six-window SW front of 12-pane sashes with stucco hoodmoulds. Glazed door in ground floor third bay may replace a window. Rendered right end wall, windowless to left, door in added glazed porch to right on side wall of rear wing, sash to right of porch with Gothic glazing bars. Two sashes above, with marginal glazing bars. Roughcast left end wall with small lean-to addition behind crenellated SW wall. One ground floor window with Gothic glazing bars left of centre, one first floor left 12-pane sash. Rear has projecting broad hipped wings each side and recessed hipped projection to centre, presumably original stair tower. Left wing is windowless with end stack. Recessed centre gable has added glazed lean-to below and large sash window above flanked by small sashes. Right wing has 12-pane sash at mid height left, lighting present stair, and to first floor right, and sash with Gothic glazing bars ground floor right.
From SE corner extend an L-plan range of single storey outbuildings, a short section running SE and range with 3 doors running NE with SW end truncated stack, roughcast, formerly whitewashed.
Interior
Spine corridor plan with principal rooms to SW and staircase to NE. Late C19 stair with ball-finial to turned newel and some later C19 tiling to corridor in front. Six-panel doors. Some floral plaster ceiling borders.
Reason for designation
Included as a smaller country house in the late Georgian manner, complete with outbuildings in a little altered group.
Nearby in the register
- Coach-house at Llwyn-duDomesticunder 1 mi
- Stable court at Llwyn-duDomesticunder 1 mi
- Meini Llwydion Burial ChamberChambered Tombunder 1 mi
- Stable and coach-house at Fern HillDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.