Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Old house, with attached cow house, at Garn Farm
Llanddarog, Carmarthenshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- No class recorded
- Date of designation
- 12 December 2003
- Locality
- Garn
- Community
- Llanddarog
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.80773, -4.15898
- Cadw reference
- 82281
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 2.4km SSE of Llanddarog, reached by farm road on the W side of a minor road S of Porthyrhyd. The old house and cow house are on the E side of the modern house.
History
The house is probably C18 and, although technically a longhouse, the cow house is later. The house was replaced as a dwelling by a new house built c1912.
Exterior
A 2-storey rubble-stone house with lower cow house stepped slightly outwards to the R (downhill) side. Of whitewashed rubble stone, the house has a corrugated iron roof with stone stack to the L end. A stack to the R end has been taken down. A boarded door is R of centre under a segmental head. To its R is a replaced window, with window above. The L-hand unit has no window in the front, but a replaced window to the rear in each storey.
The cow house a slate roof. It has full-height cross-passage doorways next to the house, and a lintelled doorway in the gable end, each with boarded doors.
Interior
A boarded door from cross passage to house suggests the original internal arrangement, subsequently modified with the insertion of a front door. The front door opens to a stair hall with dog-leg stair. The R-hand room has a fireplace with timber lintel. The roof has 2 collar-beam trusses with curved-feet principals.
Reason for designation
Listed for its special interest as a rare well-preserved longhouse, a type once common in the district.
Nearby in the register
- Old House at Garn FarmNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Capel BigawdinReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Maesdulais Lime KilnsNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Maesdulais LimekilnsLimekilnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.