Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
8 Rock Street
New Quay, Ceredigion, Wales
A Grade II listed building in New Quay, Ceredigion, designated on 23 November 1961.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 23 November 1961
- Locality
- New Quay
- Community
- New Quay
- Unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.21690, -4.36065
- Cadw reference
- 10820
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1848 · 57. Tregaron, SW Quad. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1919 · Sheet 78. Lampeter. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Situated towards N end of terraced row, Nos 2 to 11 (consec) Rock Street.
History
Early to mid C19
Exterior
House in colourwashed rubble stone with slate roof and stone end stacks. Two-storey three-window range with C20 plastic windows and painted slate sills. Centre original 6-panel door with traceried half-elliptical fanlight and panelled reveals. Timber classical porch of two crude fluted columns with entablatures and open pediment. Basement door to ground floor right, to right of low raised terrace with C20 stone facing.
Reason for designation
Part of one of the earliest terraces of New Quay, marked on 1847 Tithe Map, probably as item 22, the house occupied by Captain James Phillips. Despite the loss of the original windows, one of the best surviving houses for its door and porch.
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- 9 Rock StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 11 Rock StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- FairholmDomesticunder 1 mi
- 9 Marine TerraceDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.