Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Blaenwern
Llanarth, Ceredigion, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 16 February 1996
- Locality
- Blaenwern
- Community
- Llanarth
- Unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.18303, -4.30743
- Cadw reference
- 17725
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 about 1 km down lane running E off A 487 from junction just S of Penrhiwlas.
History
Mid C19 smaller gentry house, not marked on 1840 Tithe Map. Said to have been built for Miss Elizabeth Lloyd. Noted in later C20 as breeding stud for Welsh cobs and Welsh Black cattle, founded by Pauline Taylor with Barbara Saunders-Davies and later Enid Lewis. The stud was given to University College, Aberystwyth, which closed it and dispersed the stock.
Exterior
Rubble stone, formerly stuccoed, with slate roofs, flat eaves and rendered whitewashed stacks. Two-storey, three-window N front with hipped NE angle and W end stack. Large hornless 12-pane sashes with slate sills and brick heads. Centre 4-panel door with leaded-light overlight and brick head. E side, overlooking lane, has ridge and S end stacks, three-window range of similar sashes with brick heads, the left two-window range closer spaced, and one window originally a door. Altered whitewashed single storey S end addition.
Reason for designation
Included as good example in the district of small country house still in late Georgian style.
Nearby in the register
- Entrance Gates and Railings at BlaenwernDomesticunder 1 mi
- Milestone S of PenrhiwlasTransportunder 1 mi
- Milestone outside SchoolTransportunder 1 mi
- Fronwen UchafDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.