Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
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Llanfihangel Ystrad, Ceredigion, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 18 October 1996
- Locality
- Dihewyd
- Town
- Lampeter
- Community
- Llanfihangel Ystrad
- Unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.19404, -4.22584
- Cadw reference
- 17443
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
Farm situated at end of short lane off E side of by-road, 1.6km NW of Dihewyd. House on N side of yard.
History
Dated "M.D.1814", built presumably for the Davies family. Owned in 1845 by Thomas Davies and occupied by Morgan Davies, 79.6 hectares in extent.
Exterior
Painted rubble construction. Slate roof, left gable with slated barge. Rubble gable chimney stacks with drips: thicker to left. Three bay 2-storey front markedly offset to right. Windows with cambered stone voussoired heads and slate sills. Upper floor with 3/3 horned sash windows, 6/6 horned sashes below. C20 central door, plain overlight and head as above. Datestone to left of door. Left end with 20 century ground floor window. Later rear outshut, the right part raised in C20 and given a flat roof. Surviving portion has 6-pane window rising to eaves and C20 window below.
Interior
Wide fireplace to left room with low timber bressumer.
Reason for designation
Listed as an early C19 and well-preserved farmhouse of substantial proportions.
Nearby in the register
- Rhiwbren FawrDomesticunder 1 mi
- Outbuilding to E of Rhiwbren FawrAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Bronfre-UchafDomestic1 mi
- FoelalltDomestic1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.