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Ty-to-maen

Ty-to-Maen was one of the more substantial historic houses in the village of Llancarfan, standing just west of the Nant Llancarfan at Cross Green, close to the old ford and footbridge. The name is particularly interesting: Ty-to-maen can be interpreted as “house with a stone roof”, a notable feature at a time when thatch was the normal roofing material for vernacular houses in the Vale. The historic landscape study suggests that the name may indicate a house of some importance and possibly a building dating from the 17th century or earlier. By the time of the 1840 tithe map, Ty-to-Maen was one of the larger farms in the village, alongside Great House.

The original Ty-to-Maen was subsequently demolished or substantially reduced, and a new house bearing the same name was built to the north-west on a different site. By 1919, the new farm had acquired a substantial U-shaped range of agricultural buildings, reflecting its continuing importance as a working farm. The later Ty-to-Maen farmhouse is a late-19th-century stone house with red-brick dressings and a slate roof, and remained an important agricultural holding into the 20th century. A 1961 sale catalogue records Ty-to-Maen and Gowlog Farms together as a substantial 177-acre combined stock and dairy farm, illustrating the scale of the agricultural enterprise by that period.