Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
The Red Lion Inn
Nantcwnlle, Ceredigion, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 26 November 1996
- Locality
- Talsarn
- Town
- Lampeter
- Community
- Nantcwnlle
- Unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.18596, -4.12933
- Cadw reference
- 17804
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 centre of Talsarn, on W side of B 4337.
History
Earlier C19 inn on Lampeter to Aberystwyth turnpike road. Apparently marked on 1841 Trefilan Tithe Map, which has `Red Lion fields' owned by John Lewes of Llanllyr, occupied David Davies.
Exterior
Colourwashed rubble stone with slate roof and stone end stacks, roughcast to left, whitewashed to right. Two-storey, three-window range of 12-pane sashes, hornless to upper floor. Centre ledged door. Rear has C20 flat-roofed SW addition, centre stair gable and NW rear wing. NW rear wing has low section to E with big stone end stack.
Reason for designation
Listed as a well-preserved inn retaining its regional character in late Georgian style.
Nearby in the register
- Talsarn SmithyCommercialunder 1 mi
- Ty MawrDomesticunder 1 mi
- Pont Talsarn (partly in Nantcwnlle Community)Transportunder 1 mi
- Pont TalsarnTransportunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.