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Soar

Cilymaenllwyd, Carmarthenshire, Wales

A Grade II listed building in Efailwen, Cilymaenllwyd, Carmarthenshire, designated on 10 February 2004.

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1913) covering the location of Soar, Cilymaenllwyd, Carmarthenshire, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1913), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Designation
Listed building, Grade II
Broad class
No class recorded
Date of designation
10 February 2004
Locality
Efailwen
Community
Cilymaenllwyd
Unitary authority
Carmarthenshire
Country
Wales
Coordinates
51.89593, -4.71430
Cadw reference
82461

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)
  • 1891 · Sheet 10. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. . (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1898 · 210 Cardigan (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1898 · 210 Cardigan (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1901 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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Cadw's description

On the W side of the main junction at Efailwen, and on the W side of a minor road to Llangolman.

Built in the early C19 and shown on the 1839 Tithe map.

A 2-storey 2-window house of whitened rubble stone and slate roof with brick stacks. The lower storey openings have cambered heads with stone vousoirs. Windows are margin-lit sashes in the lower storey, flanking a half-glazed corrugated iron door. The upper storey has small-pane pivoting windows beneath the eaves. A continous outshut is behind, and a corrugated iron lean-to is against the L gable end.

Not inspected.

Listed as a well-preserved house retaining strong early C19 character.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Designated Historic Asset GIS Data, The Welsh Historic Environment Service (Cadw), 2026-09-07, licensed under the Open Government Licence http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/ Cadw, the Welsh Historic Environment Service · Open Government Licence v3.0
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