Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Nos 1 and 2 Smiths Cottages
Ysbyty Ystwyth, Ceredigion, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Pontrhydygroes, Ystrad Meurig, Ysbyty Ystwyth, Ceredigion, designated on 23 December 2004.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 23 December 2004
- Locality
- Pontrhydygroes
- Town
- Ystrad Meurig
- Community
- Ysbyty Ystwyth
- Unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.33971, -3.84432
- Cadw reference
- 83416
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
Situated on N side of river, by roadside some 300m E of Pont Rhydygroes.
History
Two Hafod estate cottages probably mid C19, disused in 2004. On the 1843 tithe map a smithy is marked on the other side of the road along from Hafod Lower Lodge on the estate drive. There is some small structure where the present cottages are situated, but with no name on the map, which suggests that these are later, yet stylistically they look earlier than Ystwyth Villa and Hafod House which are marked on the map.
These houses have an apparent joint, showing that the lower house, No 1, was built first.
Exterior
Two rubble stone houses built on to each other, the left one double-fronted, the right one stepped slightly up hill is smaller, two-bay. Rubble stone with slate eaves roofs and each with stone left end chimney. Deep overhangs to gable verges.
Nine-pane sash windows above, 12-pane below, all hornless with stone voussoirs and slate sills. Left cottage has centre board door with overlight, right cottage has board door in right bay, with no overlight. Both doors with similar stone voussoirs.
To right of right house is small one-storey stone outbuilding with single door and twelve-pane fixed window.
Interior
Not available for inspection.
Reason for designation
Included as a pair of estate houses in the late Georgian style, retaining original detail.
Nearby in the register
- Hafod Lower LodgeDomesticunder 1 mi
- Gatepiers and gates at Hafod Lower LodgeDomesticunder 1 mi
- Hafod HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Ystwyth VillaDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.