Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Gelli Lodge
Nantcwnlle, Ceredigion, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Trefilan, Lampeter, Nantcwnlle, Ceredigion, designated on 26 November 1996.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 26 November 1996
- Locality
- Trefilan
- Town
- Lampeter
- Community
- Nantcwnlle
- Unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.19466, -4.12548
- Cadw reference
- 17811
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 195 Lampeter (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1919 · Sheet 78. Lampeter. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Situated at head of E drive to Gelli, some 300m NW of Trefilan church
History
Early C19 picturesque lodge to Gelli, house of the Rogers family. Derelict in C20 and largely reconstructed 1979 for the Hon. John Vaughan. Marked on 1841 Trefilan Tithe Map.
Exterior
Rendered walls, originally cob, with thatched umbrella roof on eight rough pine posts (replaced 1979). Central rubble stone stack of elongated octagonal plan, with water tabling and projecting cap. Single-storey, octagonal plan, slightly elongated. Pointed ledged door SE, small pointed window, casement with pointed top-light, E and W, larger window N, a casement pair with Y-tracery top-light.
Interior
Left unfinished since 1980. Central stack, small rooms.
Reason for designation
Listed, despite extensive rebuilding, as very rare example of a picturesque entrance lodge of the type associated with John Nash.
Nearby in the register
- Gatepiers and gates to GelliDomesticunder 1 mi
- Barn cottage at GelliAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Outbuilding on N side of farmyard at GelliAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Castell TrefilanMotteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.