CEFN-CETHIN, Trapp, Carmarthenshire 2020
Notes on CEFN-CETHIN, Trapp, Carmarthenshire 2020
I had known of this house since it was first put on the market a couple of years ago. The pictures of the estate agent website show a roofless ruin, the grounds cleared of foliage. In those two years a lot of foliage had grown back and my visit, mid-summer, made it all but impossible to get to the front door.
Only a few exposures were made.
This is an 18th century manor house (according to the sales burb) and the house is larger than most farmhouses and has an interesting array of outbuildings. The arched doorways had appeal, as does the full height rear part of the house, a somewhat odd looking square extension most likely a rear doorway but inaccessible. The rear is also windowless other than the large arch. I wonder if this had something to do with the historical window tax (introduced in 1696 until 1851)?
Outbuildings around the rear, again mostly inaccessible. A lovely site and a lovely house which takes only a little imagination, but a whole heap of money, to return to its former glory.
According to ‘Historic Carmarthenshire Homes and their Families’ by Francis Jones (ISBN 0906972027), Cefn Cethin was still being lived in when the book was published in 1987.
I had known of this house since it was first put on the market a couple of years ago. The pictures of the estate agent website show a roofless ruin, the grounds cleared of foliage. In those two years a lot of foliage had grown back and my visit, mid-summer, made it all but impossible to get to the front door.
Only a few exposures were made.
This is an 18th century manor house (according to the sales burb) and the house is larger than most farmhouses and has an interesting array of outbuildings. The arched doorways had appeal, as does the full height rear part of the house, a somewhat odd looking square extension most likely a rear doorway but inaccessible. The rear is also windowless other than the large arch. I wonder if this had something to do with the historical window tax (introduced in 1696 until 1851)?
Outbuildings around the rear, again mostly inaccessible. A lovely site and a lovely house which takes only a little imagination, but a whole heap of money, to return to its former glory.
According to ‘Historic Carmarthenshire Homes and their Families’ by Francis Jones (ISBN 0906972027), Cefn Cethin was still being lived in when the book was published in 1987.
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By john lewis: Further to last comment,please note that this ruin is not in Trap and was not lived in 1987 according to Francis Jones book.Instead its listing should not be confused with the new Cefn Cethin mansion, some half mile to the East.