Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Gamekeeper's Cottage
Ciliau Aeron, Ceredigion, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 8 May 2002
- Locality
- Llanerchaeron
- Town
- Lampeter
- Community
- Ciliau Aeron
- Unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.21401, -4.20844
- Cadw reference
- 26640
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
On N side of A 482, about 1km NW of Ciliau Aeron.
History
The cottage, formerly Pontfaen Cottage, has recently been renamed Gamekeeper's Cottage. It was formerly part of the Llanerchaeron estate, the John Nash house, now owned by the National Trust. It is believed to have been a lodge to the big house, perhaps built at the end of the C18. It has similarities with Clwyd Du, possibly the other lodge at the west end of the estate. Subsequently used as a cottage for the estate's gamekeeper.
Exterior
Cottage of two storeys. Two window front. Steep pyramidal slate roof with finial; deep eaves over front. Rectangular chimney to rear. First floor has two 12-pane hornless sash windows set at eaves; 2 similar windows on ground floor. Central doorway covered by later wooden trellis porch. Later glazing to side windows. C20 rear outshut and side porch.
Interior
Not inspected but said to have kitchen and parlour either side of central lobby, and to retain planked doors with strap hinges, steep stair rising from a rear vestibule, flagged floors.
Reason for designation
Late C18 or early C19 building of the Llanerchaeron estate.
Nearby in the register
- Barn to W of Pont FaenAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Pont FaenDomesticunder 1 mi
- Ty Glyn including attached wings to main gable endsDomesticunder 1 mi
- Granary at S end of farmyard at Ty GlynAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.