Cwm Gu Cottage including attached barn is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 July 1963. Cottage.

Cwm Gu Cottage including attached barn

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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Brecon Beacons National Park
Country
Wales
Date first listed
19 July 1963
Type
Cottage
Source
Cadw listing

Description

Two-storey cottage of rubble sandstone with tile roof, and stone stack with diagonal shaft to L end. The front has a pentice carried on 7 brackets (which are continuations of the internal cross-beams) and with stone tile roof. The doorway at L end has stop-chamfer surround and a shaped door head, above which is inscribed '1633 + H:C'. Above the doorway is a small casement. Also casement windows to centre and R. The barn attached to R gable end is lower (creasing of an earlier byre or barn is visible at a higher level in gable end of house) and of rubble stone with slate roof. Full-height double doors to the cart passage are centrally placed under a canopy; a boarded door to R has a stone lintel. Rear of house has inserted casement windows; the barn has full-height double doors to cart passage.

Lobby-entry, 2-unit plan. In the lower storey are cross beams with crude chamfers and stepped stops. Fireplace stairs in stone now said to be replaced in wood.

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