Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Penllwyn Cottage
Pembrey and Burry Port Town, Carmarthenshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- No class recorded
- Date of designation
- 25 November 2003
- Locality
- Penllwyn
- Community
- Pembrey and Burry Port Town
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.69733, -4.26426
- Cadw reference
- 82073
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
Approximately 1.3km NE of Pembrey village, reached by private road on the S side of Mountain Road.
History
Probably built for colliers at a small nearby drift mine and first shown on the 1880 Ordnance Survey, by which time the drift mine was already disused. The cottages were converted to a single dwelling in the late C20.
Exterior
A restored pair of 2-storey double-fronted cottages of rubble stone with renewed slate roofs on projecting eaves, and 3 stone stacks. The original front, now the back of the house, has stone segmental heads to the lower-storey openings and wooden lintels above. Doorways have renewed boarded doors. Windows are 4-pane sash windows in the lower storey, small casements above, but windows are not aligned. Set back against the L gable end is an added lean-to with a 4-pane sash window to the front, under a brick segmental head, and a similar window to the side wall, in brick jambs.
The rear has 3 segmental-headed doorways, of which the L-hand has a renewed boarded door while the others are blocked. There are 4-pane sash windows at the L end and R of centre.
Interior
Not inspected.
Reason for designation
Listed as a well-restored pair of miner's cottages, a type and small group once common in the South Wales coalfield but now extremely rare.
Nearby in the register
- Colliery Ventilation Furnace at PembreyChimneyunder 1 mi
- Milepost on Gwscwm RoadNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Plas KenrhosNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Court FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.