Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
The Commercial Inn
Ciliau Aeron, Ceredigion, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 3 June 1964
- Locality
- Cilcennin
- Town
- Lampeter
- Community
- Ciliau Aeron
- Unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.21970, -4.16649
- Cadw reference
- 17526
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 in village centre, E of church.
History
Mid/later C19.
Exterior
Spar-dash finish. Slate roof with projecting eaves and bargeboards. Rubble gable chimney stacks: also to rear wing. three bay front, offset to right with 16-pane hornless sash windows. C20 central door, plain overlight. Left end with C20 first floor window. Former village shop of c.1900 to right.
Two bay rear wing of three storeys (due to steeply falling ground). Sixteen-pane hornless sashes to upper floors and one to ground floor left. Lean-to porch in angle with main part: boarded door.
Interior
Cross passage with dog-leg stick baluster stair (lower flight boxed-in), turned newel to ground floor with ball finial. Cellar under right hand room and rear basement, both reached off stone stair from the passages.
Reason for designation
Prominent village inn with tall rear wing in attractive village setting opposite churchyard. Included for group value with attached cottages to rear.
Nearby in the register
- Attached Cottage to S of GlendowerDomesticunder 1 mi
- GlendowerDomesticunder 1 mi
- The Old VicarageDomesticunder 1 mi
- Capel SionReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.