Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Horse engine House at Brixton Farm
Laugharne Township, Carmarthenshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Laugharne Township, Carmarthenshire, designated on 21 November 1988.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 21 November 1988
- Community
- Laugharne Township
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.78313, -4.48270
- Cadw reference
- 9680
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 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)
- 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 · 229 Carmarthen (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Immediately to N of the long cowhouse range beside the track to the farmhouse.
History
Probably mid C19 and contemporary with the adjacent farmbuildings.
Exterior
Octagonal shape with pyramidal asbestos roof. Stone piers with modern brick infill; the horses turned a driveshaft which formerly passed into the hayloft via low opening.
Reason for designation
Group value with the cowhouse and cornstore, farmhouse and cartshed and stable.
Nearby in the register
- Cowhouse & Corn Store (including attached range to E.) at Brixton FarmAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Cartshed & Stable at Brixton FarmDomesticunder 1 mi
- Brixton FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Parson's LodgeDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.