Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pen-y-pistyll Mawr
Llangeitho, Ceredigion, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 15 October 1997
- Locality
- Penuwch
- Town
- Tregaron
- Community
- Llangeitho
- Unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.23996, -4.05349
- Cadw reference
- 19012
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 some 100m S of Capel Penuwch on the minor road from Llangeitho to Penuwch.
History
Earlier C19 pair of houses, now one.
Exterior
Colourwashed rubble stone with slate roof and three whitewashed stone stacks. Two houses probably of a single build, the larger, to right, double-fronted, the smaller, to left, two-window range. Two storeys. House to right has two upper six-pane windows with single opening pane, ground floor right 4-pane casement, all with stone sills. Centre ledged door. Ground floor left 6-pane window with one opening pane and slate sill. Left house has two upper 4-pane windows with one opening pane and stone sills, ground floor left horned 4-pane sash with slate sill. Door to right. Timber lintels to all ground floor openings. Whitewashed end walls, no outshut. Small lean-to added on right end wall.
Reason for designation
Listed as a unified pair of little-altered village houses of regional character and of a type once typical but now rare in the region.
Nearby in the register
- PengraigDomesticunder 1 mi
- Rhos-gochDomestic1 mi
- Cwrt MawrDomestic1 mi
- Barn at Penlan FachAgriculture and Subsistence2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.