Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Delfryn Cottage
Henfynyw, Ceredigion, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 21 February 1996
- Locality
- Henfynyw
- Community
- Henfynyw
- Unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.22619, -4.26213
- Cadw reference
- 17742
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 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 on the N side of a minor road E of Henfynyw and attached at right end to Delfryn.
History
Early C19 single-storey cob-walled cottage with stone front. Thatched roof under tin. Shown on the 1846 Tithe Map as being on the Crofftybeudy farm, probably a farmworker's cottage.
Exterior
Whitewashed rubble stone front with cob rear and end wall. Corrugated iron roof over thatch and brick left end stack. Double fronted, offset to right with 4-pane casement each side of part-glazed door, all with timber lintels, and probably later C19 replacements. Rear is all cob above rubble plinth. Two small windows.
Interior
Much smoke-blackened double-purlin roof with thin collar trusses and thin vertically-laid branches under gorse underthatch.
Reason for designation
A scarce example of a cob cottage of regional type, refronted in stone here but retaining its character.
Nearby in the register
- SychpantDomesticunder 1 mi
- CrofftybeudyDomesticunder 1 mi
- Milestone off A487 at HenfynywDomesticunder 1 mi
- Milestone on A482Transportunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.