Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Billiard Room at Llanerchaeron (Previously listed as sited at Llanaeron House)
Ciliau Aeron, Ceredigion, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II*
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 3 June 1964
- Locality
- Llanerchaeron
- Community
- Ciliau Aeron
- Unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.21914, -4.22716
- Cadw reference
- 10716
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
Detached building situated on E side of rear approach to main house, some 10m NE of entry to rear court.
History
Built 1843 for John Lewis of Llanerchaeron by David Price, the estate mason. Designed in simple Neoclassical style.
Exterior
Rubble construction, slate hipped roof with wide plastered eaves and large rectangular timber lantern with low pitched hipped roof. Brick chimney stack to rear. Square plan, single storey with symmetrical 3-bay front. Central gabled porch with projecting eaves, round arched entry with stone voussoirs. Six-panel door with fanlight: radiating glazing. Two slate steps. Outer windows set in full-height round arched recesses. Round arched 10/6 hornless sash windows: radiating upper glazing bars. Stone voussoirs and slate sills. Lantern has fixed 6-pane windows (four to sides and two each end), divided by pilasters, which are paired towards each corner. Flat boarded eaves. Plain sides and rear.
Interior
Square room with coved plaster ceiling, timber floor and white marble fireplace.
Reason for designation
An extremely rare and pleasing example of a detached early C19 billiard room. Listed II* for grouping with main house.
Nearby in the register
- Outbuilding opposite Billiard Room at Llanerchaeron ( Previously listed as sited at Llanaeron HouseAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Llanerchaeron, including rear Service Courtyard Ranges (previously listed as Llanaeron House)Domesticunder 1 mi
- One set of Gatepiers and Gates to drive SE of Llanerchaeron(Previously listed as sited at Llanaeron)Domesticunder 1 mi
- U-Plan Coach House and Stable Range at llanerchaeron(Previously listed as sited at Llanaeron House )Domesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.