Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Maenllwyd
Meidrim, Carmarthenshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Meidrim, Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, designated on 8 July 2002.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 8 July 2002
- Locality
- Meidrim
- Town
- Carmarthen
- Community
- Meidrim
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.86231, -4.50371
- Cadw reference
- 26752
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 on the SW side of a minor crossroads some 1.3 km W of the centre of Meidrim village.
History
Former public house, now house, probably early C19. Marked on 1841 tithe map as a cottage, part of the Trafel-yr-ych farm of 195 acres (80 hectares). Trafel-yr-ych was then occupied by William Harry and owned by George Bowen who owned seven farms in the community totalling some 690 acres (279.5 hectares). Recorded as Maenllwyd PH in 1926 directory, occupied by Janet Davis.
Exterior
House, colourwashed rubble stone with slate roofs and end stacks, brick to right, stone to left. Two-storey, 3-window front with 4-pane small sash windows, the upper ones square, and centre board door. Stone voussoirs to ground floor openings, timber lintels to small square upper windows. Roof overhangs at gable ends, outshut rear. Long single-storey range to right has ridge brick stack, two 4-pane sashes to left of stack, a door and small window to right, the first 4-pane sash in former door. Shorter single storey range to left has 3 raking buttresses framing window to right and door to left. C20 extension to left has 2 windows.
Interior
Not inspected.
Reason for designation
Included as a traditional three-bay house, with small windows and long low proportions of the early C19, little altered.
Nearby in the register
- Bethel Calvinistic Methodist ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Lofted outbuilding to N of The CloseAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- The CloseDomesticunder 1 mi
- L-plan outbuilding to E of The CloseAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.