Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Talfan Cottage
Llanddowror, Carmarthenshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 9 March 2001
- Locality
- Llanddowror
- Town
- Carmarthen
- Community
- Llanddowror
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.79643, -4.53196
- Cadw reference
- 24958
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 on the W side of the A477 some 600m S of the Church of Saint Teilo in Llanddowror village.
History
Single storey cottage, probably mid C19.
Exterior
Cottage, whitewashed rubble stone with corrugated iron close-eaved roof and two brick stacks, one on ridge, one on right end wall. Single storey, double fronted with board door between 2 x 4-pane sashes and a third similar sash in left end section, beyond chimney stack. This part is added, as there is a straight joint. Rendered end walls, rubble stone rear.
Interior
Not available for inspection.
Reason for designation
Included as one of the best surviving single storey cottages of the region, a building type once common, now rare.
Nearby in the register
- Picton HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Churchyard gates, piers and railings at Church of Saint TeiloReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Church of Saint TeiloReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Cross-Incised StonesCross-marked stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.