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Latitude: 52.0891 / 52°5'20"N
Longitude: -3.5868 / 3°35'12"W
OS Eastings: 291376
OS Northings: 244606
OS Grid: SN913446
Mapcode National: GBR YF.BDYC
Mapcode Global: VH5DM.SR4C
Plus Code: 9C4R3CQ7+J7
Entry Name: Cefn
Listing Date: 23 March 1962
Last Amended: 29 April 2005
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 6716
Building Class: Domestic
ID on this website: 300006716
Location: Situated some 3.5 km SW of Llangammarch, up road to Tirabad, then short lane E to Cynala Uchaf, then track to N.
County: Powys
Town: Llangammarch Wells
Community: Llangamarch
Community: Llangamarch
Locality: Cefn-gorwydd
Traditional County: Brecknockshire
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House and attached outbuildings, apparently C19. Also known as Cefn Bryn, the C17 birthplace of Thomas and James Howell, sons of the curate of Llangammarch. Thomas was Bishop of Bristol 1644-6, and James was Historiographer Royal to Charles II, died 1666. It is said to be a 'false long-house' rebuilt as a gentry house in the C17. The present outbuildings are C19, the house is externally altered.
Farmhouse with attached barn and lofted cart-shed in single-roofed range. Slate roof. Farmhouse is altered, with two small rendered C20 ridge stacks, one at left, the other between second and third bays. Two storeys, three bays much offset to right. Painted roughcast. Three narrow upper windows with C20 8-pane hopper-type windows. Ground floor has one C20 window to left of big C20 roughcast range with front door and triple window.
Outbuildings comprise a barn in rubble stone with brick headed barn doors, off-centre, two loops to right, one to left, and then lofted cartshed with two loft windows over two elliptical arched cart entries with C19 three-ring arches and square stone pier. Roof continues to right over full-height section fronted in corrugated iron.
Not available for inspection.
Included, notwithstanding the alterations to the farmhouse, for special historic interest as the birthplace of Thomas and James Howell.
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