Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Gwaralltyryn
Llandysul, Ceredigion, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 13 January 1993
- Locality
- Castell Hywell
- Community
- Llandysul
- Unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.10645, -4.28188
- Cadw reference
- 10595
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 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Situated some 0.8km N of Pontsian Church, on W side of Clettwr Fach, approached by long track past ruins of Castell Hywell mill.
Exterior
Circa 1840 farmhouse in rubble stone with slate roof and stone end stacks. Two-storey 4-window range of cambered-headed windows with stone voussoirs and stone sills. Lower openings have recessed voussoirs and raised keystone. Original sashes all replaced in plastic. Outshut rear. Attached to right is lower service range with end stack, door to left, window each floor to right. Stone voussoirs. Attached beyond, at lower level due to slope of ground, is late C19 lofted outbuilding with 4 brick-headed doors and one small loft window.
House has massive stone arched kitchen fireplace.
Attached at left end of house, at right angles, is late C19 lofted cartshed, with broad yellow-brick elliptical-arched cart entry, door and window, also with yellow-brick heads, one small centre loft window above. Stone outside steps on end wall to loft door with dove holes in gable.
House has rubble forecourt wall with low wire railings and gate between split stone gate piers.
Nearby in the register
- Cartshed range to left of GwaralltyrynAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Outbuildings opposite GwaralltyrynAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Castell HywelMotteunder 1 mi
- Yr EfailDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.