Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Rock House
Llandysul, Ceredigion, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 13 January 1993
- Community
- Llandysul
- Unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.03917, -4.31167
- Cadw reference
- 10567
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1830 "V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Situated in terraced row opposite Tabernacle Chapel and Dinarth Hall
Exterior
Mid C19 house and service wing, now separate house, in snecked rubble stone with slate roofs. Rock House is large 2-storey 3-window range with rendered end stacks and altered flat eaves. 12-pane sashes with cambered heads, stone voussoirs and slate sills. Broad centre doorway with pilasters, entablature and cornice in painted timber, 2-panel door with sidelights and overlights. Arched panels.
Dwarf wall with iron spearhead rails in front.
Rocklee, to right, is lower 2-storey 2-window extension with innner bay canted out to street line. Slate roof and stone W end stack, stone parapet with plain shelf cornice, 12-pane sashes and modern door with overlight.
Reason for designation
A distinguished town house in later Georgian style.
Group value with other listed items on N side of Bridge Street.
Nearby in the register
- RockleeDomesticunder 1 mi
- Dinarth HallDomesticunder 1 mi
- Tabernacle ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Former Chapel HouseReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.