Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Former Village Well
Llangynfelyn, Ceredigion, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Tre Taliesin, Llangynfelyn, Ceredigion, designated on 24 April 2009.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Water Supply and Drainage
- Date of designation
- 24 April 2009
- Locality
- Tre Taliesin
- Community
- Llangynfelyn
- Unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.50283, -3.97968
- Cadw reference
- 87585
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)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1896 · Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 163 Aberystwyth (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
On the SW side of the village, in an embankment below main road (A487) through the village, close to the junction with the lane leading to Dol-y-bont.
History
Probably an early C19 structure (the period in which the village itself was developing). The well is probably one of the sources of water supply referred to in reports of the Rural Sanitary Authority in the 1870s suspected of being contaminated, but found on testing to be pure.
Exterior
The structure comprises a well chamber built into bank and set within a length of retaining wall with short returns. The wall is roughly coursed rubble and the well-chamber has arched entry with rough voussoirs, and stone vaulted roof. Capped drain in base.
Reason for designation
Listed as a fine and well-preserved example of a well-house in its village context.
Nearby in the register
- No.19 Pencae, and front railingsDomesticunder 1 mi
- Oak RidgeDomesticunder 1 mi
- Retaining walls at Ysgoldy FachEducationunder 1 mi
- Yr Ysgoldy FachEducationunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.