Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Ty Mawr
Cardigan, Ceredigion, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Cardigan, Ceredigion, designated on 14 April 1992.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 14 April 1992
- Community
- Cardigan
- Unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.08216, -4.66142
- Cadw reference
- 10489
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1637 · Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 193 Cardigan (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
History
Circa 1880. Said to have been built for Edgar Rees, grocer.
Exterior
Substantial house, stucco with hipped slate eaves roof to main part and apex brick corniced stack. Three storeys and attic, one-window main front and recessed wing to left.
Main front has rusticated ground floor, cornice above, then 3-bay upper floors with narrow blank panels each side of centre window bay. Cornice right across at first floor level and the 4 piers have paired brackets under eaves. First floor big canted oriel with cornices carried around base and head, plate glass sashes and cast-iron floral railing above, in front of second floor tripartite sash. Big stucco eaves dormer, arch-headed. Ground floor has symmetrical shopfront with recessed doors, remodelled in C20 but in original frame. Stucco returns across plain side wall to Market Lane for half depth, then rubble stone with ashlar window frames.
To left of main front, set back entrance bay with rusticated ground floor, arched doorway with keystone, 6-panel door and plain fanlight, and similar narrow arched sash to each floor above, each with arched hood. Plain parapet. Single-storey shop to left, rusticated with cornice carried across.
Interior
Open-well stair up 2 floors with turned balusters and continuous rail. Patterned tile floors to ground floor and stained glass roundels to inner hall door.
Reason for designation
Included as good example of late C19 town house and for group value.
Nearby in the register
- The Old Shire HallCommercialunder 1 mi
- 35 High StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- 36 High StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- 37 High StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.