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The Welsh House
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A Study in Folk Culture
By Iorwerth C Peate, Honourable Society of Cymrodorion, 1940
Compiled by Gareth Hicks
**My copy of this book was deposited with Glamorgan FHS in April 2022
The full book can now (2012) be viewed on the Internet Archive site
Copies from the book can not be provided, there is a reprint edition available
| Review Llanerch publishers have reprinted many books of Welsh interest over the years and Iorwerth Peate became the first curator of the Welsh Folk Museum (now the Museum of Welsh Life) at St Ffagans.The early editions of this book have been long out of print and second-hand copies much sought after. Despite its age and the amount of modern research undertaken since, it is still a useful and interesting book. All our Welsh ancestors must have lived in houses as described in this fascinating and well-researched book. Plenty of diagrams, plans, old photographs and a very readable text. There is an index to the houses and sites mentioned as well as a general index and extensive bibliography. Those of you who have been fortunate to have visited St Ffagans will recognise the types of houses described here as there are chapters on the circular house, the long-house, the cottage and stone and half-timbered houses. Some of these houses, my own included, were just as Iorwerth Peate described them right up until a couple of years ago. As I drive around the quiet, lonely, lanes of this part of Carmarthenshire and north Pembrokeshire there are still deserted old cottages, sometimes with remains of thatch under the rotting corrugated roof, abandoned to the elements, and you wonder about the history of the families who once lived there. I can really recommend this book as background material to your own Welsh family history. Mary Jane Stephenson 2000 |
Contents
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These are in plate order, not alphabetical
| Frontispiece. Bryn-mawr, LlanerfyI, Montgomeryshire. | 1. Braichmelyn, Dinas Mawddwy, Merionethshire |
| 2. Circular pigsty, Blaen Gwenffrwd, Llanover, Monmouthshire. | 3. Circular pigsty, Hendre, Pontypridd, Glamorganshire. |
| 4. Circular pigsty, Penddeucae-fach, Bedlinog, Glamorganshire. | 5. Circular pigsty, The Downs, Llantwit Major, Glamorganshire. |
| 6, Interior of circular pigsty, The Downs, Llantwit Major, Glamorganshire. | 7. Circular pigsty, Blaen-ddol, Usk Valley, Trecastle, Brecknockshire. |
| 8. Charcoal-burners' hut, Rockley, Stainborough, Yorkshire. | 9. Abernodwydd, Llangadfan, Montgomeryshire |
| 10. Farmhouse in the Hautes Alpes. | 11. Lan, Llandeilo, Carmarthenshire. |
| 12. Ty'r celyn, Llandeilo, Carmarthenshire. | 13. Blaenwaun, Llansadwrn, Carmarthenshire. |
| 14, Cwmeilath, Llansadwrn, Carmarthenshire. | 15. Llwyn-rhys, Llanbadarn Odwyn, Cardiganshire. |
| 16. Llwyn-rhys, Llanbadarn Odwyn, Cardiganshire. | 17. Nant-y-ffin, Llandeilo, Carmarthenshire. |
| 18. Ty'ndolau, Llangeitho, Cardiganshire. | 19. Ty'n-coed uchaf, Blaencaron, Cardiganshire : front. |
| 20. Ty'n-coed uchaf, Blaencaron, Cardiganshire: back. | 21. Gwastod, Abermeurig, Cardiganshire. |
| 22. Gwndwn, Pencader, Carmarthenshire. | 23. Coedlannau, Pencader, Carmarthenshire. |
| 24. Doorway, Whithen, Pencader, Carmarthenshire | 25. Maes-y-bidiau, Abergorlech, Carmarthenshire. |
| 26. Erw Domi, Porth-y-rhyd, Carmarthenshire. | 27. Hepste Fawr, Penderyn, Brecknockshire. |
| 28. Hepste Fawr, Penderyn, Brecknockshire. | 29. Dinas Isaf, Pen-y-graig, Rhondda, Glamorganshire. |
| 30. Dinas Isaf, Pen-y-graig, Rhondda, Glamorganshire | 31. Ciloerwynt, Dyffryn Claerwen, Radnorshire. |
| 32. Cefn-hirfryn, Cynghordy, Carmarthenshire | 33. Glan-'rafon, St. Harmon's, Radnorshire. |
| 34. Llannerch-y-cawr, Cwm Elan, Radnorshire. | 35. The deserted countryside : a view in the Brecknockshire Beacons upland |
| 36. Cottage, Pont-rhyd-fendigaid, Cardiganshire | 37. Pensarn-mynach, Cribyn, Cardiganshire. |
| 38, Great Mains, Llaethdy, Radnorshire. | 39. Ffynnon Goy Isaf, Llanychaer, Pembrokeshire |
| 40. Paradise Cottage, Leighton, Welshpool, Montgomeryshire | 41. Llain-wen isaf, Llanychaer, Pembrokeshire : front. |
| 42. Llain-wen isaf, Llanychaer, Pembrokeshire: back. | 43. Carn-deifog fach, Llanychaer, Pembrokeshire |
| 44. Carn-deifog isaf, Llanychaer, Pembrokeshire : interior, roof. | 45. Ty'n-rhosgadfa, Rhosgadfan, Caernarvonshire. |
| 46. Llainfadyn, Rhos-isaf, Caernarvonshire. | 47. Cae Rhys, near LlanuwchIlyn, Merionethshire |
| 48. Bryn-mawr, Llanerfyl, Montgomeryshire : front. | 49. Cottage, St. Nicholas, Vale of Glamorgan. |
| 50. Gwrhyd Bach, St. David's, Pembrokeshire : recess. | 51. Llaethdy, St. David's, Pembrokeshire: interior view. |
| 52. Llaethdy, St. David's, Pembrokeshire : interior view. | 53. Hendre Einon, St. David's, Pembrokeshire : exterior |
| 54. Cottage at Selworthy, Somersetshire. | 55. Rhydonnen, Gellifor, Denbighshire. |
| 56. Galch Hill, Denbigh. | 57. Plas Uchaf, Eglwysegl, Denbighshire |
| 58. Lymore, Montgomery. | 59. Penrhos, Montgomeryshire. |
| 60. Trewern, Buttington, Montgomeryshire. | 61. Maes-mawr, Caersws, Montgomeryshire. |
| 62. Penarth, near Newtown, Montgomeryshire | 63. Talgarth, Trefeglwys, Montgomeryshire. |
| 64. Rhyd-y-carw, Trefeglwys, Montgomeryshire. | 65. Cefncloddiau, Llawr-y-glyn, Staylittle district, Montgomeryshire. |
| 66. Timbering of a barn in south Yorkshire. | 67. Glan-y-wern, Llandyrnog, Denbighshire. |
| 68. Cruck constructed building, Yale district, Denbighshire. | 69. Cruck-constructed cottage, Hawarden, Flintshire. |
| 70. Y Gilfach, Llanfihangel-y-Pennant, Merionethshire. | 71. Cruck construction, Lloran Ganol, Llansilin, Montgomeryshire-Denbighshire border |
| 72. Llwyn-rhys, Llanbadarn Odwyn, Cardiganshire | 73. Cae Crwn, Glanmorfa, Portmadoc, Caernarvonshire |
| 74. Llainfadyn, Rhos-isaf, Caernarvonshire | 75, Porch of a cottage near Waterfall Station on the Snowdon Mountain Railway, Caernarvonshire |
| 76. Painted mural decoration, of early 17th-century type at Brogynin , Penrhyn-coch, Cardiganshire | 77. Pitched floor, Plasau Duon, Carno, Montgomeryshire. |
| 78, Pitched floor, Pen-rhiw, Trefeglwys, Montgomeryshire. | 79. Tan-yr-ardd, Rhostryfan, Caernarvonshire |
| 80. Pair of interlocking ridge-tiles from Caerphilly, Glamorganshire | 81, Wattling of a chimney louvre, Carmarthenshire. |
| 82. Thatched chimney-'pot', Carmarthenshire | 83. Rim of clay daub appearing over thatch, Carmarthenshire. |
| 84. Developed wattle-and-daub chimney-pot, Carmarthenshire. | 85. Chimney-pot of wooden boards, New Quay, Cardiganshire. |
| 86. 'In-and-out' partitioning from Penyberth, Llyn, Caernarvonshire |
These are in plate order, not alphabetical
| 1. A simplified geological map of Wales. | 2. Plan of circular hut at Parc Dinmor, Penmon, Anglesey |
| 3. Plan of House 1, Caerau, Clynnog, Caernarvonshire. | 4. Gaulish huts on the Antonine column. |
| 5. Framework of Stone Age hut, Raisala, Finland. | 6. Plan of Abernodwydd, Llangadfan, Montgomeryshire |
| 7. The 'Saxon' house. | 8. Lan, Llandeilo, Carmarthenshire: ground plan. |
| 9. Cwmeilath, Llansadwrn, Carmarthenshire ground plan. | 10. Blaenwaun, Llansadwrn, Carmarthenshire ground plan. |
| 11. Ty'r celyrt, Llandeilo, Carmarthenshire : ground plan, | 12. Esgair, Llansadwrn, Carmarthenshire : ground plan. |
| 13. Nant-y-ffin, Llandeilo, Carmarthenshire : ground plan. | 14. Ystradaman, Betws, Carmarthenshire ground plan. |
| 15. Ty'ndolau, Llangeitho, Cardiganshire ground plan. | 16. Nannerth Canol, Rhayader, Radnorshire : ground plan. |
| 17. Gwndwn, Pencader, Carmarthenshire : ground plan. | 18. Hepste Fawr, Penderyn, Brecknockshire : ground plan. |
| 19. Llannerch-y-cawr, Cwm Elan, Radnorshire ground plan. | 20. Ciloerwynt, Dyffryn Claerwen, Radnorshire ground plan. |
| 21. Pant-y-drain, Kerry, Montgomeryshire : ground plan. | 22. Map of the Llanychaer (Pembrokeshire) area |
| 23. Pensarn-mynach, Cribyn, Cardiganshire : ground plan. | 24. Great Mains, Llaethdy, Radnorshire : ground plan. |
| 25. Llain-wen isaf, Llanychaer, Pembrokeshire: ground plan | 26. Llain-wen isaf, Llanychaer, Pembrokeshire : longitudinal section. |
| 27. Llain-wen isaf, Llanychaer, Pembrokeshire : cross-section | 28. Carn-deifog isaf, Llanychaer, Pembrokeshire : sketch plan of tyddyn |
| 29. Ty'n-rhosgadfa, Rhosgadfan, Caernarvonshire : ground plan. | 30. Bryn-mawr, Llanerfyl, Montgomeryshire : ground plan. |
| 31. Cottage, Rhos-isaf, Caernarvonshire : ground plan. | 32. Farmhouse, Strata Florida, Cardiganshire : ground plan. |
| 33. Farmhouse, Strata Florida, Cardiganshire exterior. | 34. Farmhouse, Strata Florida, Cardiganshire exterior. |
| 35, Farmhouse, Strata Florida, Cardiganshire interior. | 36. Farmhouse, Strata Florida, Cardiganshire interior showing fire-place. |
| 37. Typical ground plan of farmhouse at St. David's, Pembrokeshire. | 38. Llaethdy, St. David's, Pembrokeshire : cross-section. |
| 39. Porch and doorway, Llaethdy, St. David's, Pembrokeshire. | 40. Round chimney, Llaethdy, St. David's, Pembrokeshire. |
| 41. Llaethdy, St. David's, Pembrokeshire : ground plan. | 42. Llaethdy, St. David's, Pembrokeshire: exterior view. |
| 43. Porth-mawr, St. David's, Pembrokeshire: ground plan. | 44. Porth-mawr, St. David's, Pembrokeshire: exterior.view. |
| 45. Clegyr Foea, St. David's, Pembrokeshire : exterior view. | 46. Rhoson Uchaf, St. David's, Pembrokeshire: exterior view. |
| 47. Rhoson Uchaf, St. David's, Pembrokeshire: front. | 48. Trefeiddan, St. David's, Pembrokeshire: exterior view. |
| 49. Trefeiddan, St. David's, Pembrokeshire : detail of front. | 50. Trefeiddan, St. David's, Pembrokeshire: doorway. |
| 51. Hendre Einon, St. David's, Pembrokeshire: fireplace. | 52. PwIlcaerog, St. David's, Pembrokeshire : exterior. |
| 53. Bachelldre, Churchstoke, Montgomeryshire. | 54. Lack, Churchstoke, Montgomeryshire. |
| 55. Cruck at Hafod Ysbyty, Merionethshire. | 56. Cruck at Lloran Ganol, Llansilin, Denbighshire. |
| 57. Truss at Plas Ucha, Llangar, Merionethshire. | 58. Floor designs, Solva, Pembrokeshire |
ANGLESEY
BRECKNOCKSHIRE
CAERNARVONSHIRE
CARDIGANSHIRE
CARMARTHENSHIRE
DENBIGHSHIRE
FLINTSHIRE
GLAMORGANSHIRE
MERIONETHSHIRE
MONMOUTHSHIRE
MONTGOMERYSHIRE
PEMBROKESHIRE
RADNORSHIRE
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