PLANS to demolish a farmhouse and stone barn and build a replacement property in Llandeilo have been refused by the council.

The plans for the demolition of the two-storey detached farmhouse and stone barn at Rhydycymerau, Llandeilo, and to construct a replacement detached dwelling which would incorporate the conversion of the redundant threshing barn into the residential space was refused by the council on the grounds of the replacement property not being appropriate.

The existing three-bedroom farmhouse was built around 1850 and has had two separate extensions added to it over time. It had been occupied up until a couple of years ago when the previous owner died but the farmhouse is now in a state where it is not currently habitable according to the new owners.

The replacement home would have been made of cleaned up and reused stone from the original farmhouse where possible on the ground floor. The first floor would have been made from charcoal grey wood effect UPV cladding, with the same on the second floor.

The threshing barn would have remained with the original stone. The replacement of the cowshed west element would have use reused stone where possible.

The roof on all three areas would have been made from reused slate where possible and the windows would have been made from charcoal grey UPVC double glazed windows.

On January 10, Carmarthenshire County Council refused the application, stating that it would be contrary to Policy H4 (replacement dwellings) of the Carmarthenshire LDP as the proposed replacement dwelling ‘is of a scale and mass that is disproportionate to the existing dwelling and the overall design is not appropriate to the character and appearance of the area.’