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Latitude: 52.1046 / 52°6'16"N
Longitude: -3.7714 / 3°46'16"W
OS Eastings: 278775
OS Northings: 246619
OS Grid: SN787466
Mapcode National: GBR Y5.9H5C
Mapcode Global: VH5DJ.LC2G
Plus Code: 9C4R463H+RF
Entry Name: Ystradffin
Listing Date: 8 July 1966
Last Amended: 25 February 1999
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 10924
Building Class: Domestic
ID on this website: 300010924
Location: Situated E of the minor road leading to Llyn Brianne in the valley of the Afon Tywi, some 3.5km N of the centre of Rhandirmwyn.
County: Carmarthenshire
Town: Llandovery
Community: Llanfair-ar-y-bryn
Community: Llanfair-ar-y-Bryn
Locality: Ystradffin
Traditional County: Carmarthenshire
Tagged with: Farmhouse
Farmhouse rebuilt in the early C19 for the Cawdor estate, but retaining the thick front walls and some internal features of a C17 house. Richard Fenton in 1809 noted 'nothing now appears but a large farmhouse and the old outhouses' but the house was noted from the C16. Rhys ap William was High Sheriff in 1549, his son Thomas Williams was High Sheriff of three counties between 1577 and 1592. His widow married in 1607 the legendary Thomas Jones (Twm Shon Catti) who died in 1609. She then married Sir George Devereux of Llwynybrain, uncle of the Earl of Essex. Later in the C17 and in the C18 owned by the Price family, and by late C18 part of the estate of the Campbell family, Earls of Cawdor. Marked in the 1771 Cawdor map-book as having 468 acres (189.54 hectares). There is said to be a piece of timber in the house dated 1672 with the initials MD.
Farmhouse, rubble stone front, formerly whitewashed and whitewashed sides and rear. Slate roof and rendered end wall stacks. Two storeys, 3-window range of cambered- headed 16-pane horned sashes with stone voussoirs and stone sills. Half-glazed door with similar head and voussoirs. Roughcast N end with loft light. NE rear wing with red brick E stack, outshut to N, rubble stone E wall. Outshut has straight joint.
Not available for inspection, but front wall at right is of exceptional thickness and S front room is said to have been used as a court-room with seat in window embrasure. There is also said to be a corner hole used for hanging the condemned. Thick heavily moulded beams may be C17.
Included as a good example of a substantial late Georgian estate farmhouse rebuilt incorporating parts of a C17 house.
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