Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Ice House at Hafod
Pontarfynach, Ceredigion, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Hafod, Ystrad Meurig, Pontarfynach, Ceredigion, designated on 3 September 1999.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 3 September 1999
- Locality
- Hafod
- Town
- Ystrad Meurig
- Community
- Pontarfynach
- Unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.34086, -3.82243
- Cadw reference
- 22279
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)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 178 Llanilar (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Isolated location approximately 250m S of site of demolished house, and 15m NW of the Alpine Bridge.
History
Later C18 ice-house built for Thomas Johnes of Hafod, built into slope.
Exterior
Ice-house, visible externally as a mound covered in undergrowth. Passage entry facing NE with rubble revetments. Roughly constructed pointed doorway set within recess with voussoired segmental head.
Interior
Very deep crucible of rubble, with domical top.
Reason for designation
Included as a well-preserved late C18 ice-house and for historical importance as an original part of Thomas Johnes' improvements at Hafod.
Nearby in the register
- Hafod: Nant Bwlch-GwallterStoneunder 1 mi
- Former kitchen garden walls, greenhouses, associated outbuildings and river terrace at HafodDomesticunder 1 mi
- Stable Range at Hafod and attached courtyard wallsAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Hay-barn at HafodAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.