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Old house, including attached bakehouse, at Llettyrychen Fawr Farm

A Grade II Listed Building in Pembrey and Burry Port Town (Pembre a Phorth Tywyn), Carmarthenshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.6933 / 51°41'35"N

Longitude: -4.2307 / 4°13'50"W

OS Eastings: 245917

OS Northings: 201752

OS Grid: SN459017

Mapcode National: GBR GR.CG39

Mapcode Global: VH3M9.MP8R

Plus Code: 9C3QMQV9+8P

Entry Name: Old house, including attached bakehouse, at Llettyrychen Fawr Farm

Listing Date: 23 July 1998

Last Amended: 25 November 2003

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 20147

Building Class: Domestic

ID on this website: 300020147

Location: About 1.5km NE of Burry Port, on S side of minor road between A484 and B4308.

County: Carmarthenshire

Town: Llanelli

Community: Pembrey and Burry Port Town (Pembre a Phorth Tywyn)

Community: Pembrey and Burry Port Town

Locality: Llettyrychen

Traditional County: Carmarthenshire

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History

Llettyrychen was the home of the Vaughan family in the C16, passing to the Mansels of Briton Ferry, and by 1690 was leased to John Bonvill, yeoman. The present house is late medieval in origin, incorporating a 1st-floor chamber with arched-brace trusses. In the C17 a central fireplace was inserted, creating the present lobby-entry plan, with contemporary projecting bay to the rear of the hall. A bakehouse was added at the NW angle of the house in the late C17 or C18. In the C19 a stair projection was built at the rear (now collapsed), and a dairy was built against the uphill gable end, which has subsequently been taken down. The house remained inhabited until c1956 when a new farmhouse was built.

Exterior

A 2-storey house of rubble stone with roughcast front, and slate roof to the R-hand unit, but collapsed to the L-hand, behind coped gables. A central stack has been removed. In the L gable end is a corbelled 1st-floor stack, but taken down to below ridge level. Windows have mostly lost their glazing. The front has a C16 doorway L of centre, in a chamfered dressed-stone surround with 4-centred head. To its R is a window then a former doorway, now partially blocked, to the original hall, and with a single window to the L. The upper storey has 3 windows. In the R gable end is the scar of a former attached dairy. A single 4-pane horned sash window is in the L gable end, where there are dressed stone jambs of an earlier window. In the rear elevation the wall has collapsed on the R-hand side. The L-hand side has a lean-to hall bay, with small single-light window in its side wall, to the R of which are windows in each storey with wooden lintels, and a wide inserted doorway.

Attached to the rear L, or NW angle, is a 2-storey former bakehouse of rubble stone and bigger quoins, behind which is a roughcast lean-to attached to the rear of the main house.

Interior

The house has a 2-unit lobby-entry plan. The hall, on the R side, has a timber lintel to its large fireplace. The upper-storey floors have collapsed. The room above the hall has 3 C16 arched-brace trusses. In the bakehouse is a large fireplace.

Reasons for Listing

Listed as a substantial C16 storeyed house, with particularly rare arch-braced roof to the upper chamber.

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