Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Old Farmhouse at Pwllfein Farm
Llandysul, Ceredigion, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 13 January 1993
- Locality
- Porthrhyd
- Community
- Llandysul
- Unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.09623, -4.30063
- Cadw reference
- 10624
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 300m SW of Pont Porthrhyd after road rises steeply. Set at SE end of farmyard, at right angles to present (1916) farmhouse.
History
Late C18 or early C19.
Exterior
Farmhouse in rubble stone, whitewashed to front with slate roof and stone end stacks. Outshut rear. 2-storey, double-fronted elevation with 12-pane sashes each side and centre door, all offset slightly to allow for deeper chimney wall to left. Heavy quoins at front corners. Upper windows are smaller and set under eaves, lower windows have cut-stone voussoirs to cambered heads. Door has single stone lintel. Split slate sills. Single-storey rear outshut under corrugated iron roof with cambered headed doorway to E and door and window to rear.
Interior
Central lobby with boarded partitions and dog-leg stair with 6-panel door. Landing wall is boarded rather than masonry. One large first floor room, no fireplace and collar-truss double-purlin roof. Pegged joints and roughly squared timbers.
Reason for designation
Listed as one of the earlier surviving farmhouses in the area, unaltered.
Nearby in the register
- Cribor Fawr, Cwm Clettwr FawrDomesticunder 1 mi
- L-Plan Outbuildings to left of Cribor Fawr, Cwm Clettwr FawrAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Outbuildings & Mill Wheel at PantmochIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Clettwr VillaDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.