Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Cow house at Croff-y-Cyff
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
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 6 September 2002
- Locality
- Ffaldybrenin
- Community
- Llanycrwys
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.08097, -4.01154
- Cadw reference
- 26935
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
On the E side of and facing the farmhouse.
History
Built in the third quarter of the C19 and first shown on the 1888 Ordnance Survey.
Exterior
A cow shed of rubble stone with brick dressings and quoins, and slate roof. The front has a central boarded door under a segmental head, to the L of which is a small-pane window and then a further boarded door. At the downhill end a small brick lean-to has been added. In the R (uphill) gable end is a boarded loft door. The rear has a single central boarded door. A kennel has been added to the R-hand, downhill, end.
Reason for designation
Listed for group value with the farmstead as a rare well-preserved small C19 upland farmstead, a type once characteristic of the region.
Nearby in the register
- Croff-y-Cyff including attached stable and cart shedDomesticunder 1 mi
- Gelli FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Blaenau-fforestDomesticunder 1 mi
- Ffaldybrenin Independent Chapel including attached building to right.Religious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.