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Full Record - Hay Rural, Llangwathen
| Location | Hay Rural, Llangwathen, Breconshire |
|---|---|
| Grid reference | SO 2447 4032 |
| Description | A platform-sited cruck-framed hall-house with a box-framed solar cross-wing later encased in stone. The chimney of the present hearth-passage house has been inserted against an arch-braced 'open' truss preserving the cambered collar but truncating the tie-beam. It is not clear if this truss was a central hall truss (of low mantel-beam type) or a truss at the entrance to the hall (cf. Hafodygarreg above). The lower bay, latterly at least, was a cowhouse and incorporates a tethering beam. The solar cross-wing is integrated with the cruck frame and presumably contemporary with it, but samples taken in the wing failed to date. This is the second oldest cruck-framed house identified in Wales and is virtually complete. Llangwathen was a detached portion of the lordship of Welsh Hay and its owners in the 16th century had gentry status. Survey by S.R. Jones and J. T. Smith in 'The Houses of Breconshire, Part II', Brycheiniog X (1964), pp. 122-4, figs. 22, 24; Smith, Houses of the Welsh Countryside, fig. 110a, with additional information in NMRW. Dating commissioned by RCAHMW. |
| Type of Building | Hall house |
| Type of Structure | Cruck |
| DATES | |
| Type of date | Tree-ring (ring width) date. |
| Felling Date | 1418 |
| Period | Medieval |
| Century | 15 |
| Date | 1418 |
| IDENTIFIERS | |
| VA Volume No. | 35 |
| VA Page No. | 110 |
| List sequence id | 1901 |
| Laboratory | Oxford Dendrochronology Laboratory (and predecessors) |
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