Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pontbren-ddu
Clynderwen, Pembrokeshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- No class recorded
- Date of designation
- 10 April 2004
- Locality
- Llandissilio
- Community
- Clynderwen
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.86563, -4.72181
- Cadw reference
- 82472
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 0.7km NE of Llandissilio, reached by farm road through Bush Farm on the E side of the A478.
History
Built in the early C19 and shown on the 1839 Tithe map. It was improved by extension and window replacement in the late C19.
Exterior
A single-storey limewashed cottage with corrugated asbestos-cement roof and brick stack to the L. Windows are replaced 4-pane horned sashes flanking a central boarded door. On the L (N) side is a 1½-storey single-window brick extension with 4-pane sash window. Set back on the R (S) side is a lower, formerly open-sided outbuilding, with timber infill and rubble-stone gable end. The rear of the cottage has a 4-pane sash window, to the R of which is an outshut with boarded door in the L end wall. The N extension also has a rear outshut.
Interior
The original thatch roof was replaced in the C20 by adding additional sawn trusses over the original trusses.
Reason for designation
Listed as a small, well-preserved cottage, a type once characteristic of the region.
Nearby in the register
- Llandissilio War MemorialCommemorativeunder 1 mi
- Church of Saint TysilioReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Inscribed Stone in outer face of wall of St Michael's Church (now in Llandissilio Church)Cross-marked stoneunder 1 mi
- Portis-Parc CampEnclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.