Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Mount Hill
Llangunnor, Carmarthenshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Tre-gynwr, Llangunnor, Carmarthenshire, designated on 16 January 2004.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- No class recorded
- Date of designation
- 16 January 2004
- Locality
- Tre-gynwr
- Community
- Llangunnor
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.84800, -4.29872
- Cadw reference
- 82392
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 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1860 · 41. Caermathen. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Sheet 10. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. . (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 229 Carmarthen (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
In its own grounds set back from the road at the S end of Tre-gynwr.
History
Built in the second quarter of the C19 and included in the 1841 Tithe apportionment.
Exterior
A late Georgian villa roughly square in plan with U-shaped roof line to a central valley, of rendered walls and hipped slate roof. On the L-hand ridge are 2 brick stacks, on the R-hand ridge is a stack with paired round shafts (overgrown at the time of inspection). The 4-bay front has pointed windows with small-pane sashes incorporating Gothic glazing bars. The entrance is L of centre, in an added open gabled porch on posts. The door has blind Gothic panels and is beneath a pointed overlight with Y-tracery. The R side wall has 3 pointed sash windows similar to the front, and a square-headed fixed small-pane window further R. The rear elevation to the L-hand gable end is 2-storey, incorporating service rooms, the R-hand gable set back.
Interior
Not inspected.
Reason for designation
Listed for its architectural interest as a well-preserved early C19 Gothic style villa.
Nearby in the register
- Towy Bridge (that part in Carmarthen Community)Civilunder 1 mi
- Towy WorksCommercialunder 1 mi
- Retaining wall to the SE of County HallCivilunder 1 mi
- Sections of Medieval Town WallDefenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.