Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Cefn Ceido Farmhouse
Nantmel, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Rhayader, Nantmel, Powys, designated on 12 December 1952.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 12 December 1952
- Locality
- Rhayader
- Community
- Nantmel
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.30287, -3.49168
- Cadw reference
- 8725
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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)
- 1637 · Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 179 Rhyader (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Reached by a short farm road on the S side of the A44 approximately 1.3km ENE of Rhayader town centre.
History
A late C18 house replacing an earlier medieval house. Part of the rear was rebuilt in the mid C20.
Exterior
A Georgian 3-bay house of 2 storeys with attic and basement, of roughcast walls, hipped slate roof with swept eaves on a billeted cornice, external brick stack to the R with tall roughcast shaft, and external stone stack to the L, both with shafts standing on broader gablets. Immediately behind the L-hand stack is a tall replacement blue-brick stack. The symmetrical front has a central entrance with fielded-panel door under an iron-framed overlight and in panelled reveals, beneath an added canopy on wooden brackets. Windows are 12-pane hornless sashes with sills. A cellar window is on the R side. The L side wall is rubble stone. The rear is rubble stone, except for the rebuilt L side, which is roughcast. A tall central stair window under a stone segmental head has replacement small-pane glazing. To its R is a blocked segmental-headed window, an inserted 4-pane sash window under a concrete lintel, and a replaced small-pane casement upper R. To the L of the stair window are 4-pane sash windows in each storey. The rear roof slope has an inserted skylight.
A lower 2-storey wing, attached and projecting beyond the R side of the rear, is rubble stone with asbestos-slate roof and C20 brick end stack. On the L side is a replacement door in an outshut against the rear wall of the house. To its R are enlarged windows in each storey.
Interior
The house is centrally planned with full-height dog-leg stair, which has turned balusters and wreathed handrail.
Reason for designation
Listed for its special architectural interest as a well-preserved Georgian farmhouse retaining original character, and as part of a strong farm group.
Nearby in the register
- Cart shed and granary at Cefn Ceido FarmNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Barn at Cefn Ceido FarmAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Cow house at Cefn Ceido FarmNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Round Barrow NE of Cefn-Ceido HallRound Barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.