Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Cilpyll Farmhouse
Nantcwnlle, Ceredigion, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 26 November 1996
- Locality
- Nantcwnlle
- Town
- Lampeter
- Community
- Nantcwnlle
- Unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.21051, -4.05325
- Cadw reference
- 17794
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 on N side of Llangeitho road, some 250m W of bridge over Gwenffrwd that marks the community E boundary.
History
Minor gentry house, built 1768 for John Morgan. Marked on 1843 Nantcwnlle Tithe Map as owned by Hester Lloyd. Original name, Cilpyll, now used by C20 house to W of the farmyard.
Exterior
Rubble stone, formerly whitewashed now covered with sand-textured paint, with slate roofs, and whitewashed stone end stacks. Flat boarded eaves with widely spaced pairs of brackets. Two-storey, three-window range of plastic windows replacing small-paned sashes and 6-panel door, 2 panels glazed. Stone voussoirs, stone sills. Scratched datestone over door JM 1768. Windowless end walls. Central rear wing with porch in angle and ledged door. 9-pane fixed window to ground floor left, C20 plastic window above. N end stone stack. Parallel gabled NE rear wing with E outshut.
Interior
Central hall with broad oak stair to attic in four flights, closed string, broad rails and rectangular newels with moulded angles. Fielded panelled door to under-stair. Fielded-panelled 6-panel doors to ground and first floor. Rear wing is said to have 1768 date on fireplace lintel.
Reason for designation
Listed as a mid C18 house retaining good internal detail characteristic of regional gentry houses and farmhouses.
Nearby in the register
- Barn at Cilpyll FarmAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Felin FachIndustrialunder 1 mi
- GlanmarchDomesticunder 1 mi
- Tanrallt UchafDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.