Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Afallen
Blaenrheidol, Ceredigion, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 25 November 2004
- Locality
- Llywernog
- Town
- Aberystwyth
- Community
- Blaenrheidol
- Unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.41036, -3.86723
- Cadw reference
- 83324
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 1830 "V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Situated on S side of A44 in short row of three houses, some 200m w of entrance to Llywernog lead mine.
History
House, mid C19, possibly associated with lead mines. Not marked on 1845 Tithe map, marked on 1891 OS map. The form of the building looks like a roadside inn, but no such history found.
Exterior
House, painted rubble stone, with slate eaves roof and rendered stone end stacks. Two-storey symmetrical three-window front with 12-pane horned sashes, brick heads and slate sills. Centre C20 uPVC door in original surround with overlight recessed in rendered surround with small wood cornice on console brackets. Roughcast W end wall with overhanging verges.
To left is coachhouse with lower roof, two casement-pair windows under eaves and two entries with flat heads and double board doors.
Interior
Interior not available for inspection.
Reason for designation
Included as a substantial roadside house in late Georgian style.
Nearby in the register
- Rock-crusher house and wheel-pit at Llywernog MineDomesticunder 1 mi
- Ore dressing shed and ore-bin at Llywernog MineIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Mine offices at Llywernog MineCommercialunder 1 mi
- Llywernog Lead and Silver MineSilver Mineunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.