Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pentre Mynydd
Llangwyryfon, Ceredigion, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Trefenter, Aberystwyth, Llangwyryfon, Ceredigion, designated on 15 August 2003.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 15 August 2003
- Locality
- Trefenter
- Town
- Aberystwyth
- Community
- Llangwyryfon
- Unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.29931, -4.04313
- Cadw reference
- 81764
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 1830 map "V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1896 · Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (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)
- 1919 · Sheet 78. Lampeter. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Situated some 150m NE of Capel Bethel in Trefenter.
History
Small farmhouse with byre in-line, probably earlier to mid C19, marked on the 1842 tithe map, when the owner was Lewis Davis and the occupier was David Jenkins. The farmhouse was the home of the bard E. Prosser Rhys (died 1945), crowned at the 1924 National Eisteddfod in Pontypridd for his poem Atgof. Disused and in poor condition 2002.
Exterior
Small farmhouse, rubble stone formerly whitewashed, with slate close-eaved roof and 2 brick stacks. Two storeys, double-fronted, much offset to right with off-centre boarded door. Hornless small-paned sash windows, 9-pane above, 12-pane below, stone voussoirs to lower openings, slab lintels to upper 2 windows, thin slate sills. Outshut rear. Lower byre added to left with corrugated iron roof and 2 full-height doors.
Interior
C19 joists to ceilings, fireplaces gone.
Reason for designation
Included as a small vernacular farmstead, little altered, the home of one of the four chaired bards of the Mynydd Bach.
Nearby in the register
- Capel Bethel including vestry to leftReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Ty CapelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Cottage some 250m ESE of Pentre MynyddDomesticunder 1 mi
- BlaenbeidiogDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.