Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Outbuilding at Hafod-Tanglwys-Isaf
Merthyr Vale, Merthyr Tydfil, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- No class recorded
- Date of designation
- 17 February 2003
- Locality
- Aberfan
- Town
- Merthyr Tydfil
- Community
- Merthyr Vale
- Unitary authority
- Merthyr Tydfil
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.69301, -3.35067
- Cadw reference
- 80875
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
On the hillside above Aberfan, to the N of Hafod-tanglwys-isaf farmhouse.
History
Lofted C18 cowhouse with added stable section uphill to left. Probably originally hipped with pentice roof over ground floor. The RCAHMW identifies it as an oxhouse, taking the information from farmer, but interior arrangements too altered to provide proof.
Exterior
Lofted stable, rubble stone with corrugated iron roof hipped to right. Original part has 3 doors stepping downhill, 5 projecting oak beams to carry missing pentice roof, and wall under eaves has oak ends of 2 roof trusses. Added section to left under single roof has full-height door and window in blocked door with timber lintel. Loft door in left end wall. Higher right end wall due to slope, with door below and 2 small C19 brick loops above.
Interior
Older part has inserted wall. Four heavy chamfered beams to loft floor, and 2 heavy oak roof trusses each with pegged collar and apex. Modern pine rafters to added left end roof.
Reason for designation
Included as a small C18 outbuilding, rare in the region. Group value with the farmhouse.
Nearby in the register
- Hafod-Tanglwys-IsafNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Aberfan Calvinistic Methodist ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Aberfan War MemorialNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Barn Range at Aberfan Fawr FarmhouseAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.