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Windsor Castle Cottage (Ty twyn)

A Grade II Listed Building in Gwernyfed, Powys

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.0251 / 52°1'30"N

Longitude: -3.1661 / 3°9'58"W

OS Eastings: 320084

OS Northings: 236941

OS Grid: SO200369

Mapcode National: GBR YZ.GH8R

Mapcode Global: VH6BQ.2CKD

Plus Code: 9C4R2RGM+2G

Entry Name: Windsor Castle Cottage (Ty twyn)

Listing Date: 15 December 1995

Last Amended: 15 December 1995

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 17071

Building Class: Domestic

ID on this website: 300017071

Location: Located on the elbow of the lane from Felindre and Tregoyd, climbing on to Tregoyd Common.

County: Powys

Community: Gwernyfed

Community: Gwernyfed

Locality: Tregoyd

Traditional County: Brecknockshire

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History

Cottage, probably of the C18.

Exterior

Cottage, probably of the C18, built of rubble sandstone, painted to the front, and with a stone slate roof. One storey and attic, 2 bays, with the original parlour to the NW, downhill bay, and entrance to the living room in the SE bay with an external stone stack, now enclosed by a fuel store.

Boarded door within an open timber porch. Two light C19 windows and timber lintels, connected across the door by a projecting stone drip course with dropped ends. Similar drip course to the ground floor window on the NW gable end. Narrow six-paned dormer to the attic, and roof lights to rear.

Interior

Parlour end now kitchen and services. Spine beam through both bays, which are divided by a timber plank partition. Upper end fireplace has a chamfered fire lintel.

Reasons for Listing

Included as a well-preserved example of a small hill cottage probably of the C18

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  • II Cowshed at Lower Maestorglwydd
    The cowshed stands detached from the house and at one end of it.
  • II Barn at Lower Maestorglwydd
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  • II Lower Maestorglwydd
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  • II Wainhouse at Lower Maertorglwydd
    The wainhouse stands on the edge of the farm buildings and is separated from the others to W by the lane.
  • II* Middle Maestorglwydd House
    The house stands set back from the lane and at an angle to it, roughly opposite traditional farm buildings and attached to another.
  • II Tregoyd Mill House
    Located at the N end of the hamlet of Tregoyd, at the NE side of the small brook from Tregoyd Common to the Wye at Aberllynfi.
  • II Pen-yr-heol Chapel
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