Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Whitehall
Llanfihangel Rhos-y-Corn, Carmarthenshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Brechfa, Llanfihangel Rhos-y-Corn, Carmarthenshire, designated on 19 January 2011.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- No class recorded
- Date of designation
- 19 January 2011
- Locality
- Brechfa
- Community
- Llanfihangel Rhos-y-Corn
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.95178, -4.14740
- Cadw reference
- 87627
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 1860 map "41. Caermathen." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 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 · 212 Llandovery (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 212 Llandovery (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
On the north side of the main road through the village of Brechfa, to the west of a junction with the minor road leading north to New Inn.
History
Probably mid C19th, built as a small village house. Shown on 1889 1st edition OS map as a pub called the White Hall.
Exterior
A 2-storey 3-window house house with continuous rear outshut under a catslide roof. Of whitened rubble stone and slate roof with roughcast end stacks and similar stack to the outshut in the R gable end. Openings are offset to the L of centre and have cambered heads in the lower storey. The central doorway has a boarded door. The windows are 2-pane sashes with margin lights, beneath the eaves in the upper storey. The L gable end is roughcast. The R gable end has a replaced window upper R in the outshut, placed behind the line of a lower rubble wall abutting the gable end.
Interior
Not inspected
Reason for designation
Included for its special architectural interest as a good example of a regional vernacular house retaining traditional character. One of the few surviving historic buildings within the village of Brechfa, this is also a relatively rare example of a well-preserved village house of the nineteenth century.
Nearby in the register
- Ty Mawr Country HotelCommercialunder 1 mi
- Castle GreenNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Brechfa HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Stables and coach house at Brechfa HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.