Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
2 Church Street
Lampeter, Ceredigion, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Lampeter, Ceredigion, designated on 11 March 1992.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 11 March 1992
- Town
- Lampeter
- Community
- Lampeter
- Unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.11386, -4.08178
- Cadw reference
- 15855
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)
- 1899 · 195 Lampeter (Hills) (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 on street line, immediately S of junction with Bryn Road.
History
Early C19.
Exterior
Pair of houses, each 3-storey, 3-window, stucco fronted with slate roofs and rendered stacks. No 1 (Buckingham House) to right, has 6-pane attic windows, 12-pane first floor sashes, the lower half of each sash replaced in plate glass and ground floor pair of late C19 canted bay windows with lean-to slate roof between. Centre door and overlight. Rubble stone rear with 2-storey lean-to rear range and NE rear wing with big stone end stack.
This house has scarfed cruck roof trusses indicating a date of c1800 or earlier, but may be a late example of the type.
No 2 to left has modern small-pane windows throughout, centre door and overlight, rubble stone end wall with straight joint to rubble low 2-storey rear wing with large E end stone stack.
Reason for designation
Included for its special architectural interest as a good example of an early C19 pair of town-houses constructed in a formal late Georgian style. Group value with other listed items in Church Street.
Nearby in the register
- 1 Church StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- Church Hall/Neuadd Yr Eglwys & Attached HouseReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- The Old Grammar SchoolEducationunder 1 mi
- 30 High StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.