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.
Date of Designation
15/11/1990
Date of Amendment
23/05/1996
Name of Property
Former Kennels at Llanerchaeron (previously listed as sited at Llanaeron Home Farm)
Unitary Authority
Ceredigion
Location
Situated along N side of second farm court at Llanerchaeron, some 20m W of barn.
History
Early C19. Shown on 1844 Tithe map. The E portion is late C19 (a slate to the rear is dated 1896). Built originally as pigsties, but later used as kennels for the Llanerchaeron otter and fox hounds.
Exterior
Long range of rubble construction with half-hipped slate roof and E end brick chimney. Later E portion continues range of W part to front, but is shallower to rear to allow for granary stair. The W range has 3 chambers within, the E has four: eight front openings. Front courtyards to whole range enclosed by rubble walls, the SE angle rounded. At SW angle is attached single storey gabled building with S brick chimney, W door and curved SW angle. Window to E of range with timber lintel and boarded shutters. W end has two small windows and long ladder store, following gable and forecourt wall with pent slate roof on wooden brackets. Courtyards mostly with bricked floors. E courtyard has radiating pitched stone floor and sunken slate tank.
Interior
Roof in earlier W range of some 5 bays. The higher rear wall means that the end of the collar-beam is pegged to a bracketed wall-post. E range with lean-to roof, posts and angle-struts upon cross beams. E end room with copper boiler.
Reason for designation
Group value with the other farmyard buildings at Llanerchaeron.
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