Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Cottage at Rhyd Farm
Beulah, Ceredigion, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 15 March 1996
- Locality
- Rhyd
- Community
- Beulah
- Unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.05659, -4.55297
- Cadw reference
- 17975
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 SE of Llandygwydd, on SW side of lane, opposite Rhyd Farmhouse
History
Later C18 clom (clay-wall) farmhouse, probably the original Rhyd farmhouse. Now used as outbuilding.
Exterior
Whitewashed clay walls on stone plinth with thatched roof under corrugated iron. 48 degree pitch. One storey and loft, double fronted with small window each side of door. Plank door, casement windows, timber lintels.
Interior
Little altered interior, with N end wicker fireplace hood on large beam, short plank partition just right of door, and floor beam over door. Loft floor over centre and left. Roof has oak tie-beam trusses and double purlins, gorse underthatch. Interior in poor condition 1995.
Reason for designation
Listed as one of the very few intact surviving clom cottages in South Ceredigion.
Nearby in the register
- Llandygwydd Defended EnclosureEnclosureunder 1 mi
- Makeig memorialCommemorativeunder 1 mi
- Church CottageDomesticunder 1 mi
- Coach-House and Stable to W of Llandygwydd ChurchDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.