Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Fen Hill, The Butts
Laugharne Township, Carmarthenshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 25 September 1986
- Community
- Laugharne Township
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.77028, -4.46595
- Cadw reference
- 9622
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
Built into the hillside with views over the lower town to SE, reached by steep curved drive entered between rubble gate piers and iron gates.
History
Historically one of the sites from which Laugharne Castle may have been bombarded in the October/November 1644 Parliamentarian siege. Built 1827 to 1830 by Dennis Fairchild, an amateur artist; extension to SW end dated 1865. Later said to have become the home of a Moravian Bishop, a denomination that had a relatively large following in this area.
Exterior
Regency 2-storey stucco fronts with plinths to double-pile structure; U-plan similar to Parson’s Lodge and Mapsland. Hipped slate roofs with gabled extension to left and brick chimney stacks. 3-window main front with left bay set back; recessed 12-pane sash windows, french windows to ground floor with diamond glazed fanlights; similar timber detail to trellised verandah. 2-window entrance front to left dated 1865 to gable; similar windows, pitched roof modern porch to arched doorway. Original rear range set back to left with similar detail. Blind rubble end wall of cross range set back to right with lean-to at NE end.
Interior
The house retains an unusual water system with basement collecting rain water to be pumped up.
Nearby in the register
- Fernhill cottageDomesticunder 1 mi
- Coran BridgeTransportunder 1 mi
- Cross, The GristReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Island HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.