CPAT Regional Sites & Monuments Record

PRN 42072 - Glantwymyn
Listed Building 18126 (II )

Listed building.

The following is from Cadw's Listed Buildings database

The house is located at the centre of the small former flannel weaving community, where the small Wern brook joins the Afon Twymyn.

c. 1820-1830. Rubble stone and slate roof. Two storeys, consisting of a single subdivided room on each floor. Boarded door opens to lobby at the side of the gable stack. Four-paned timber cross windows, the upper windows gabled above the eaves. Montgomeryshire pebble paving in front of door.

Main living room is partitioned to provide service room and stair at rear, rising to landing and single chamber on upper floor.

Included as one of the best preserved and most westerly examples of this type of 'cube' house.

Lowe J, Welsh Country Workers Housing 1775-1875 ,1985, p 15.

Sources:-
Cadw Listing database , 2000 , ,

record created 25/09/01
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