Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
14427
Building Number
Grade
II*
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
08/03/1994
Date of Amendment
Name of Property
Pontbrenmydyr
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Ceredigion
Community
Henfynyw
Town
Locality
Llanerchaeron
Easting
247608
Northing
260098
Street Side
Location
Set into the slope above Afon Mydyr, in sight of Llanerchaeron House. Reached off the E side of the A482 down a short lane past Minafon.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Probably mid to later C18, small end-entry croglofft cottage, enlarged downhill in C19 and then further extended in two phases by the addition of animal accommodation and outhouse.
Exterior
Whitewashed cob-walls to original cottage, with rounded corners and thatched roof now clad in corrugated-iron. W end small brick stack. Entry at upper W gable end, where cob walling has been partly rebuilt. Boarded door with timber lintel to left and small 3-light casement to right. Projecting stone for tying down the thatch. S side has two 9-pane casements, SE corner fallen in (1994), revealing more of the constructional technique, in particular the lath and plaster inner skin. Otherwise S side is unusually well-preserved. N side, to track, has been rebuilt in whitewashed rubble stone, with one small 4-pane casement left of centre.
The stepped down C19 additions are whitewashed rubble with slate roofs. The addition to house and the cow-shed are separately stepped down as is the corrugated-iron roofed outhouse.
Interior
The plan form with gable-end entry suggests an earlier date than most surviving cob-walled cottages. The chimney retains the remains of a wicker hood, now concealed by an inserted ceiling. C19 brick range inserted into fireplace. Roughly hewn roof timbers with scarfed feet to trusses, the underside of the roof thatch largely complete. Later partition to rear and outer room in extension.
Reason for designation
Graded II* for the unusually complete survival of a West Wales cob-walled cottage, with specially characteristic features such as the wicker chimney-hood. Cob-walled cottages are becoming very scarce in the region, where once they were typical.
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