Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Blaenau-fforest
Llanycrwys, Carmarthenshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Ffaldybrenin, Llanycrwys, Carmarthenshire, designated on 6 September 2002.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 6 September 2002
- Locality
- Ffaldybrenin
- Community
- Llanycrwys
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.08646, -4.01961
- Cadw reference
- 26932
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 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 195 Lampeter (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1919 · Sheet 78. Lampeter. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Approximately 2.1km WNW of Ffaldybrenin, and reached by farm road on the SE side of a minor road.
History
Originally known as Bach-ystarn, built in the third quarter of the C19 and first shown on the 1888 Ordnance Survey.
Exterior
A 2-storey 3-window house of whitened rubble stone and slate roof with roughcast end stacks. Openings are offset to the R side have brick segmental heads. The central doorway has a half-lit panelled door. Windows are 4-pane horned sashes, smaller in the upper storey, with slate sills. An added lean-to is against the L gable end.
Interior
Not inspected.
Reason for designation
Listed as a well-preserved, late example of a C19 regional house, with definite quality and character.
Nearby in the register
- Croff-y-Cyff including attached stable and cart shedDomesticunder 1 mi
- Cow house at Croff-y-CyffAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Gelli FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Hirfaen Standing StoneStanding Stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.