Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
West range of outbuildings at Pontcowin
Newchurch and Merthyr, Carmarthenshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Bancyfelin, Carmarthen, Newchurch and Merthyr, Carmarthenshire, designated on 8 July 2002.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 8 July 2002
- Locality
- Bancyfelin
- Town
- Carmarthen
- Community
- Newchurch and Merthyr
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.84506, -4.42297
- Cadw reference
- 26744
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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)
- 1860 · 41. Caermathen. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Sheet 10. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. . (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 229 Carmarthen (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Situated SW of the house at Pontcowin, at the end of a track some 450m N of the former A40 and approximately 1 km NE of Bancyfelin.
History
Range of outbuildings, probably mid C19, now cow-house.
Exterior
Range of outbuildings, whitewashed rubble stone with slate close-eaved roof. Various openings with timber lintels, 14 in all. From left: a door, a tall opening to eaves, 2 small windows one blocked, a broad full-height entry, another blocked small window, a small-paned long casement-pair window under eaves, a door, another small window part-blocked, another long casement-pair under eaves, a small square window close to a mid C20 metal window, and finally another door.
Reason for designation
Included as a C19 farmyard range, part of the farm group at Pontcowin.
Nearby in the register
- PontcowinDomesticunder 1 mi
- East range of outbuildings at PontcowinAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Sarnau MansionDomesticunder 1 mi
- Castell-y-GaerEnclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.