Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Penrallt Uchaf
Llangoedmor, Ceredigion, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 10 August 1994
- Locality
- Pont-rhyd-arberth
- Community
- Llangoedmor
- Unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.07499, -4.59741
- Cadw reference
- 14795
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 down long track of some 800m running S along Nant Arberth valley from point just E of Ponty Rhydarberth.
History
A little altered farmhouse group with unpaved bedrock yard. Marked on 1840 Tithe Map as owned by Evan Protheroe, occupied by George Griffith. A David Jones of Penyrallt (d 1763) is commemorated in Llangoedmor Church, and Evan Griffith (d 1831) in churchyard. The 1705 datestone is among the earliest in Ceredigion.
Exterior
Farmhouse: Early C18 or earlier farmhouse with barn attached below. Whitewashed rubble stone with asbestos roofs and red brick end stacks, larger to left. One-and-a-half storeys. Three large C20 eaves-breaking windows. Ground floor two x 4-light casements, door and small 12-pane sash. Attached at NE corner is gabled projection with boarded window and door under rough dripcourse. Datestone above 'DI 1705'. One side window. Added SW rear wing with brick end stack. House has heavy beams and fireplace lintel to E end kitchen.
Barn: Attached downhill to E with slate roof, camber-arched entry with stone voussoirs and double doors, in angle to house projection. One loop to left. 4-bay roof with triple purlins and pegged collar trusses. Three stepped loops in end wall and six tiers of paired dove-holes in gable with slate shelves. Downhill, attached at rear angle is an asbestos roofed stable with centre door and window each side, the left window with stone voussoirs, door and other window with timber lintels.
Reason for designation
A good early example of a local vernacular farmhouse group.
Nearby in the register
- Attached Barn range to Penrallt UchafAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Outbuilding to NE of Penrallt UchafDomesticunder 1 mi
- Milestone in wall at Entrance to CawrenceTransportunder 1 mi
- Detached Lower N Range at GlanolmarchDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.