Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
The Old Post Office
Trefeurig, Ceredigion, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Pen-Bont Rhydybeddau, Aberystwyth, Trefeurig, Ceredigion, designated on 21 January 1964.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 21 January 1964
- Locality
- Pen-Bont Rhydybeddau
- Town
- Aberystwyth
- Community
- Trefeurig
- Unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.43380, -3.94435
- Cadw reference
- 9859
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
Situated towards E end of village, on slight bend just W of turn to Cwmsymlog.
History
Later C19 village house, used as Post Office in C20, but not marked on 1886 OS map, the post office then further E at Cartrefle.
Exterior
House, rubble stone with slate eaves roof and later C19 red and yellow brick end stacks, with nogged brick under caps. Two storeys, double fronted, offset slightly to right. Twelve-pane hornless sashes with painted brick heads and slate sills, the two above shorter than the two below, the window heads of the lower windows cambered. Off-centre doorway with painted brick head and recessed C20 door and overlight. Ground floor right window has lower half replaced with 2-pane sash.
Slate flagstones in front of door and cobblestones in front of left hand window.
Left end has C20 porch to left, to back door. Overhanging gable verges with shaped purlin ends.
Reason for designation
Included as an intact later C19 village house with good surviving detail.
Nearby in the register
- Penybont HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Darren VillaDomesticunder 1 mi
- Daren CampHillfortunder 1 mi
- Standing Stones c.600m NE of CwmdarrenStanding Stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.