Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Llanwnnen Post Office
Llanwnnen, Ceredigion, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Llanwnnen, Lampeter, Ceredigion, designated on 20 December 1996.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Communications
- Date of designation
- 20 December 1996
- Locality
- Llanwnnen
- Town
- Lampeter
- Community
- Llanwnnen
- Unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.10373, -4.14341
- Cadw reference
- 18075
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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 on NW corner of cross-roads of A 485 and B 4337 in Llanwnnen village.
History
Mid C19 village shop.
Exterior
Whitewashed roughcast with hipped slate roof and roughcast N end stack ( S end stack removed). Roof has flat eaves and is chamfered at SE angle. Two storeys, main three-window E front, narrow chamfered-off SE angle, and two-bay S side. 12-pane hornless sashes. Stucco plinth, band between floors, and angle strip on N end. E front has ground floor centre flat-roofed porch with double half-glazed doors and overlight, between roughcast piers with stucco caps and plinths. Narrow windows in side walls. Early C20 photographs show a slate hipped porch on two timber chamfered posts. 12-pane sash to right, and big square 20-pane shop window to left. Windowless N end. Chamfered SE angle has "Llanwnen Post Office" in raised letters on ground floor and 12-pane sash above. S side has roughcast flat porch (formerly with hipped slate roof) with double doors to right, centre similar 20-pane shop window and post-box to ground floor left (in infilled window), with 12-pane sash to first floor above. Similar angle strip at left angle.
Reason for designation
Listed as a good mid C19 house still in late Georgian style, in very prominent position on cross-roads. The survival of original shop windows is especially unusual.
Nearby in the register
- Telephone Box outside Post Office at Llanwnnen (01570 480308)Communicationsunder 1 mi
- 1 Sycamore TerraceDomesticunder 1 mi
- 2 Sycamore TerraceDomesticunder 1 mi
- 4 Sycamore TerraceDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.