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10 Lamb & Flag Cottages

A Grade II Listed Building in Ystradgynlais, Powys

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.7979 / 51°47'52"N

Longitude: -3.7293 / 3°43'45"W

OS Eastings: 280844

OS Northings: 212441

OS Grid: SN808124

Mapcode National: GBR Y7.XTVN

Mapcode Global: VH5G3.92TK

Plus Code: 9C3RQ7XC+57

Entry Name: 10 Lamb & Flag Cottages

Listing Date: 17 January 1963

Last Amended: 4 December 2001

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 6606

Building Class: Domestic

ID on this website: 300006606

Location: Situated towards the lower end of terraced row at right angles to the Tawe, reached by a temporary bridge from the Rheolau Arms Inn.

County: Powys

Town: Swansea

Community: Ystradgynlais

Community: Ystradgynlais

Locality: Gwaunclawdd

Traditional County: Brecknockshire

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History

In 1801, when Thomas Malkin passed, Pentre'r Lamb was a settlement of two inns and a few houses with a small mine by the river, near the canal-head of the Swansea Canal. The Lamb and Flag Inn and the adjacent No 14, once Lamb and Flag farmhouse may have been originally part of one large house or inn.

Exterior

House, former inn, late C18 origins, much altered. White-painted render with slate close-eaved roof and rendered brick end stacks. Two storeys, three-window range of late C20 leaded hardwood windows. Ground floor has large casement pair each side of stuccoed enclosed porch with C20 door to left and C20 window to front. Half-glazed door within. First floor has window to left and 2 smaller windows to centre and right, with hinged top-lights. Ground floor windows have tooled stone sills, first floor windows without sills. Raised plinth. Rear right has NE long rubble stone wing with brick ridge stack, rear left has parallel rear range continued along rear of No 14, one-window with roof hipped at junction with NE range, and side wall chimney.

Interior

Not inspected.

Reasons for Listing

Included despite alterations as remnant of a small rural industrial/agricultural settlement illustrative of the early industrial history of the region.

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  • II 12 Lamb & Flag Cottages
    Situated at S end of terraced row on S bank of Tawe, reached by temporary bridge from Rheolau Arms Inn.
  • II Outbuildings opposite Lamb & Flag Cottages
    Situated immediately S of the pound at Gwaunclawdd and across lane from Nos 2-12 (even) Lamb & Flag Cottages.
  • II The Pound
    Situated by the River Tawe at SW end of bridge to Lamb & Flag Cottages from Rheolau Arms Inn.
  • II* Circular cow-house at Gwaunclawdd
    About 1km W of Abercraf; to S of A 4067 and River Tawe. Towards end of group of buildings on E side of lane.
  • II Pont-y-Yard
    Situated some 100m S of the main road, across waste land, and just NW of Yard House.
  • II Yard House
    Located beside a lane leading across Yard Bridge on the south side of the A4067. The cottages are on a precipice over the River Tawe next to the bridge.
  • II Cae'r Lan Castle
    Situated some 250m WSW of Cae'r Llan, alongside bed of former Swansea Canal, and some 100m N of Castle Bridge, Cae'r Bont.
  • II Hen Noyadd
    Situated backing onto road SE of junction with Tanyrallt.

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