Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Dolcarne
Blaenrheidol, Ceredigion, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 25 November 2004
- Locality
- Ponterwyd
- Town
- Aberystwyth
- Community
- Blaenrheidol
- Unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.41359, -3.84365
- Cadw reference
- 83330
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 400m N of A44 on right side of lane to Dinas reservoir.
History
Mid C19 small house, probably built after 1845, as building on 1845 Tithe map is sited differently. House name is also written as Dolcarnau.
Exterior
House, painted rendered rubble stone with slate close-eaved roof and two colourwashed stone stacks with dripstones, one left end, one on ridge between house and service range. Two storeys, five bays, the house proper double-fronted with two 4-pane horned sashes each floor and centre door, then service range to right has door to left and 2-pane sash under a 4-pane sash. Painted slate sills. Rubble stone lean-to on right end, corrugated iron lean-to on left. Painted rubble stone left end and rear, rear wall with one small window.
Interior
Interior has centre passage, boarded on both sides with staircase at end.
Reason for designation
Included as a little-altered small traditional house with in-line service range, a characteristic Ceredigion type..
Nearby in the register
- PenybontDomesticunder 1 mi
- Yr Hen BontTransportunder 1 mi
- Hen Bont, Pont-ErwydBridgeunder 1 mi
- Ponterwyd Calvinistic Methodist Chapel and attached chapel houseReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.