Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
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Beulah, Ceredigion, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Cwm Cou, Beulah, Ceredigion, designated on 15 March 1996.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 15 March 1996
- Locality
- Cwm Cou
- Community
- Beulah
- Unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.04959, -4.48965
- Cadw reference
- 9878
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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)
- 1860 · 41. Caermathen. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Sheet 10. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. . (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 194 Llangranog (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Situated overlooking Teifi, backing onto B4333 in Cwm Cou.
History
1827 gentry house built for Robert Moseley Thomas, barrister (d1829). Passed to T. Parry Thomas, brother, surgeon, and from c1848 to 1869 rented to Davies family of Nantgwylan, Newcastle Emlyn, whose son the eccentric Forde Hughes added a drawing room wing. Sold 1873 and 1903. Later C19 bay windows. Illustrated before additions in 1832 H. Gastineau view of Teifi.
Exterior
Colour-washed stucco with slate hipped roof, and stuccoed end stacks. Paired bracket eaves. Two-storey, three-window front range, 4-pane sash to first floor centre with later C19 cornice on console brackets, two-storey later C19 2-4-2 pane canted bays each side. Early C19 four-panel door with radiating bar fanlight in columned porch. Two C20 cast Roman Doric columns, copying timber originals, timber pilaster responds, and cornice. Set back to each side are lean-to two-storey one-window wings with 12-pane sashes. Set back to right of right wing is c1850-60 tow-storey hipped addition, with one-window front. L-plan single storey outbuilding beyond. Rear has arched stair light.
Interior
Fine 1827 interiors with 6-panel doors, simple cornices, central hall to open-well stair with turned balusters and newels. First floor landing with 6-panel doors. Door to room in W wing is heavily plated in iron, perhaps inserted by Forde Hughes.
Reason for designation
A good early C19 gentry house.
Nearby in the register
- Capel y Drewen including Vestry RailingsReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Pont Ceri ( partly in Llandyfriog Community)Transportunder 1 mi
- Pont Ceri (Partly in Beulah Community )Transportunder 1 mi
- Trewen Mill / Felin DrewenIndustrialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.