Abergwenlais House is a Grade II listed building in the Carmarthenshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 29 November 1995. Demolished.

Abergwenlais House

WRENN ID
idle-rafter-cream
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Carmarthenshire
Constituency
Caerfyrddin MP: Ann Davies (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
29 November 1995
Type
Demolished
Address
Abergwenlais House, Cilycwm
OS grid reference
SN 758 390
Coordinates
52.03564, -3.8107
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Abergwenlais House is a Grade II listed building that includes a mill and outbuildings, constructed from whitewashed rubble stone with slate roofs. The structure consists of three ranges arranged in a roughly L-shaped plan. The two-storey house is located at the north end, with a taller mill at an angle to the left and outbuildings extending to the east.

The house faces southeast and features stone end stacks, with the left stack being larger. It has a two-storey, three-window range that is irregularly spaced, featuring a broad left bay and two closely spaced windows. The windows are hornless 12-pane sashes, accompanied by a half-glazed door. Stone voussoirs and slate sills are present. To the right, there is a single-storey outbuilding with two windows in its end wall. The rear of the house is whitewashed and has two 12-pane sashes on the first floor, along with two 20th-century ground floor windows.

Inside the mill, the ground floor is supported by three heavy beams, while the first floor features pine beams. The roof is notable for its fine arch-braced collar trusses with diagonal struts above the collar, and bolted joints. A massive timber horizontal shaft for a hoist is located in the roof. The barn has a later 19th-century roof with stapled collars and consists of four bays.

Local climate

Abergwenlais House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,390 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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