TY NEUADD HOUSE, Llanybydder, Carmarthenshire 2010
Notes on TY NEUADD HOUSE, Llanybydder, Carmarthenshire 2010
Many times over the last five years have I driven passed this house and with each passing year it seems the foliage grows higher and the house looks less lived in. Yet also small signs of life; a car in the driveway, occasionally washing on a line or a single light on inside.
I began photographing the house, the nettles and thistles were thigh high and made searching for the optimum angle frustrating and slightly painful. The house stands beside a minor road and as I was packing up a lady passed me by cautiously. I offered a ‘bore da’ and asked if the house had been empty for long. She replied ‘oh, it isn’t empty, someone lives there’ and carried on her way not overly rude but neither particularly friendly.
The front of the house has a whole in the roof. One of the front windows was broken and peering inside showed an empty sitting room. Other windows lower floor windows had curtains, old and dusty and drawn. Up stair windows were blackened out. The small stables also unused.
A plaque on the house says: Neuadd House, David & Mary Davies Built 1889.
Many times over the last five years have I driven passed this house and with each passing year it seems the foliage grows higher and the house looks less lived in. Yet also small signs of life; a car in the driveway, occasionally washing on a line or a single light on inside.
I began photographing the house, the nettles and thistles were thigh high and made searching for the optimum angle frustrating and slightly painful. The house stands beside a minor road and as I was packing up a lady passed me by cautiously. I offered a ‘bore da’ and asked if the house had been empty for long. She replied ‘oh, it isn’t empty, someone lives there’ and carried on her way not overly rude but neither particularly friendly.
The front of the house has a whole in the roof. One of the front windows was broken and peering inside showed an empty sitting room. Other windows lower floor windows had curtains, old and dusty and drawn. Up stair windows were blackened out. The small stables also unused.
A plaque on the house says: Neuadd House, David & Mary Davies Built 1889.
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By elizabeth stevens: I was so thrilled to see the photo of Ty neuadd house,Iam researching my family tree.I was born in Llanybyther.My grandmother on my mothers side of the family was a daughter of David and Mary Davies she was born in Maesygaer Llanybydder, the next daughter Mercy May was born in Ty Neuadd 1890 a year after the house was built.When I go back to the village one of the first places i take a look at is this sad old house.Yes it is still occupied by a single lady.Would like to take a photo of the plaque!!!!!