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Farmhouse at Gelli Cefn y Rhos

A Grade II* Listed Building in Talley, Carmarthenshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.9636 / 51°57'49"N

Longitude: -3.9808 / 3°58'50"W

OS Eastings: 264005

OS Northings: 231314

OS Grid: SN640313

Mapcode National: GBR DW.LK6Z

Mapcode Global: VH4HJ.YXC1

Plus Code: 9C3RX279+FM

Entry Name: Farmhouse at Gelli Cefn y Rhos

Listing Date: 28 April 1975

Last Amended: 1 March 1995

Grade: II*

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 11129

Building Class: Domestic

Also known as: Gelli-Cefn-Rhos

ID on this website: 300011129

Location: Isolated farmhouse in the hills to the S of Talley. At end of long lane off Talley-Cwmdu by-road.

County: Carmarthenshire

Town: Llandeilo

Community: Talley (Talyllychau)

Community: Talley

Traditional County: Carmarthenshire

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History

Later C16 reconstructed cruck-framed hall house.

Exterior

1st storey rubble built (formerly whitewashed) long low farmhouse. Corrugated iron roof concealing thatch of considerable age. Wide wooden soffits. Rendered gable stacks, thicker to left with drips. Pronounced curve in wall to left denoting staircase within, with 4-pane window; timber lintel. 3 windows to right with timber lintels, 5-pane hornless sashes; vertical glazing bars only. Three small skylights to roof.

2 small rear lean-to extensions to house - one Georgian, the other early C20. The latter conceals a small 2-light timber diamond mullion window; to the rear wall of the house: this is probably late C16. Victorian 4-paned horned sash to right of above extension.

Interior

Internally, the building reveals itself as a reconstructed cruck framed hall house of scarfed cruck construction with the remains of a further scarfed cruck. The main chimney and first floor were possibly inserted c1600- the parlour also probably belongs to this date. The resultant plan is that of a central service room between hall and parlour. Georgian panelled and planked partitions to ground floor central room. Plain chamfered beams to ground floor central room and hall, deeply chamfered beams to parlour, indicating a C17 extension. Original bressumer to hall fireplace with inset 1940s tiled grate. Doorway off cross passage still in use. Part of cross passage and byre sympathetically converted for extra accommodation.

Reasons for Listing

Listed as an important vernacular farmhouse.

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