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East farm-range at East House Farm

A Grade II Listed Building in Laugharne Township (Treflan Lacharn), Carmarthenshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.7424 / 51°44'32"N

Longitude: -4.455 / 4°27'17"W

OS Eastings: 230601

OS Northings: 207709

OS Grid: SN306077

Mapcode National: GBR GL.F8YL

Mapcode Global: VH3LZ.QGPM

Plus Code: 9C3QPGRW+X2

Entry Name: East farm-range at East House Farm

Listing Date: 13 June 2003

Last Amended: 13 June 2003

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 81184

Building Class: Agriculture and Subsistence

ID on this website: 300081184

Location: The farm lies on the southern edge of the reclaimed land of East Marsh, close to the dunes of Laugharne Burrows, due S of Laugharne. The barn range forms the western side of the courtyard.

County: Carmarthenshire

Community: Laugharne Township (Treflan Lacharn)

Community: Laugharne Township

Locality: Laugharne

Traditional County: Carmarthenshire

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History

The farmhouse is dated 1810, with an inscription that records ''''This house and offices were erected by G. P. Watkins esq.''''. The context for the construction of the farm appears to be the reclamation and enclosure of the marsh, and its colonisation by a series of new farmsteads in the early years of the C19 (the nearby Hurst House is date 1798, its model farm is of 1828). The farm-buildings represent a tightly planned group laid out as a model farm, and although the ranges appear to have been constructed at slightly different times, the distinctive courtyard layout is clearly shown in the Tithe Map of 1842.

Exterior

The farm buildings are ranged roud 3 sides of a courtyard, with the house placed centrally in the N range. The E range comprises a series of sheds, distinctively built with mono-pitched roof against a high enclosing wall. They were presumably mainly intended for storage or workshop space, and there is a wash-house or brew-house at the N end of the range. Doors (5 in all) and windows (3) are all immediately below the eaves line; the roof-line continues across a covered bay in the SE corner, where it abuts the storeyed building in the cow-house range. External doorway from the yard within this covered this covered way. Wash-house or brew-house has tall axial chimney with doorway to its R, and a window at each side.

Reasons for Listing

Listed as an integral part of a farm group which is an exceptionally well-preserved example of a model farmstead with a precise historical context in ambitious agricultural improvement at the beginning of the C19. It clearly demonstrates a mixed agricultural economy in a series of purpose-designed buildings unified by coherent planning in an enclosed yard, and by strong regional character in design and construction.

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Other nearby listed buildings

  • II Cowhouse Range at East House Farm
    The farm lies on the southern edge of the reclaimed land of East Marsh, close to the dunes of Laugharne Burrows, due S of Laugharne. The barn range forms the western side of the courtyard.
  • II Barn Range at East House Farm
    The farm lies on the southern edge of the reclaimed land of East Marsh, close to the dunes of Laugharne Burrows, due S of Laugharne. The barn range forms the western side of the courtyard.
  • II Farm Square at Hurst House
    To S of and adjoining Hurst House in the marshes to S of Laugharne.
  • II Hurst House
    Situated in the marshes to S of Laugharne near the MOD area. Set back from road in enclosed small garden to N of the former farmyard.

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