Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Fernhill cottage
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
- 51.77058, -4.46559
- Cadw reference
- 9626
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
Above the road to the NE and below Fern Hill, reached by a track N off The Butts.
History
Formerly the Gardener's Cottage to Fern Hill also known to have been used as a Moravian Chapel. Probably contemporary with Fern Hill (1827 to 1830), shown on 1834 survey map; later C19 alterations when converted to chapel use.
Exterior
Plain Gothic whitewashed rubble 1-storey and attic 3-window front, central bay advanced to form a 2-storey porch. Slate roof, diagonally set brick end chimney stacks; pitched roofs with bargeboards to attic windows. Casement windows to outer bays, acutely pointed entrance arch and nicnes to porch sides; half-glazed door.
Modern extension to right end is not of special interest.
Reason for designation
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- Fen Hill, The ButtsDomesticunder 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.