Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Cefnmabws
Llanrhystyd, Ceredigion, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 9 August 1996
- Locality
- Cwm Mabws
- Town
- Llanrhystyd
- Community
- Llanrhystyd
- Unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.29542, -4.09721
- Cadw reference
- 17142
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1830 "V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Situated off N side of by-road, 1 km NE of Rhyd-Rosser. House situated in middle of farm complex with long range of buildings attached to E.
History
Late C18/early C19. Shown on the 1841 Tithe map, when owned by J.P.A.Lloyd Phillips of Mabws.
Exterior
House with roughcast elevations. Slate roof. Tall rubble gable chimney stacks with stone tabling and drips: low corner stack to rear left. Three storey 3-bay front, offset to left. Central 4-panel door with marginally-glazed overlight. Wide 16-pane horned sash window each side. First floor with 12-pane horned sashes (smaller and modified to centre). Second floor with 6-pane window to centre. Openings with painted smooth rendered surrounds. Slate sills. Two small C20 windows to right, lighting later outshut. Two storey rear outshut with C20 glazing, except upper centre two-light 12-pane casement. Boarded door. Blocked attic light to rubble left end.
House with roughcast elevations. Slate roof. Tall rubble gable chimney stacks with stone tabling and drips: low corner stack to rear left. Three storey 3-bay front, offset to left. Central 4-panel door with marginally-glazed overlight. Wide 16-pane horned sash window each side. First floor with 12-pane horned sashes (smaller and modified to centre). Second floor with 6-pane window to centre. Openings with painted smooth rendered surrounds. Slate sills. Two small C20 windows to right, lighting later outshut. Two storey rear outshut with C20 glazing, except upper centre two-light 12-pane casement. Boarded door. Blocked attic light to rubble left end.
Interior
Right hand ground floor room of house with wide fireplace, boxed-in lintel and modern grate. Cross-beam. Simple stick-baluster staircase. Six-panel door to left room. Long outshut kitchen with bread oven served by the flue of the above-mentioned fireplace.
Reason for designation
Large late C18/early C19 farmhouse with good attached buildings: the cart-house and barn are particularly important, built in the spirit of the late C18/early C19 agricultural improvements. A remarkably well-preserved group.
Nearby in the register
- Attached range of outbuildings at CefnmabwsAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Mabws HallDomesticunder 1 mi
- Wern FachDomesticunder 1 mi
- Cottage on roadside some 200m E of Wern Fawr farmDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.