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
10728
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
23/05/1996
Date of Amendment
23/05/1996
Name of Property
Bronfre-Uchaf
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Ceredigion
Community
Ciliau Aeron
Town
Locality
Ciliau Aeron
Easting
249161
Northing
258504
Street Side
Location
Situated on N side of by-road, which is reached off the B4339, S of Ciliau Aeron. Ciliau Aeron lies 1km NE.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Early C19. A quoin to the right is dated, but only "18.." is discernible. Shown on the 1844 Tithe map. Owner, George Davies. Occupier, Mary Davies: 118 acres in extent. Later C19 fenestration. Apparently the left hand room was a once a shop, but not within living memory.
Exterior
Colourwashed rubble construction. Slate roof, timber eaves and slated barges. Rubble gable chimney stacks, thicker to right, stepped stone tabling; also chimney to rear wall near centre. Long front of five bays, offset to left. Upper floor with four 6/3 hornless sash windows, grouped away from the centre. Cambered brick heads and slate sills. Ground floor with three windows to left of door and one to right: all the openings except that to centre correspond to those above. Twelve pane hornless sashes, except to left, which has 16 panes. Heads and sills as above. C20 boarded door with low overlight and brick head. Right end with planked door: stone lintel. Six-pane attic window. Boarded door to left end with stone lintel, attic window with boarded shutter. Rubble forecourt wall with decorative late C19 cast iron gate towards right end.
Interior
Most unusual long plan, conditioned by the steep slope behind. Ground floor has a three room plan with chimney entry at both ends and also front-door passage: the latter may be an insertion. Massive fireplace in right-hand room with stop-chamfered timber bressumer and rear bread oven with cast iron door. Slate flag floor. Roughly chamfered beam with rough sawn joists. Simple late C19 dog-leg stair. Two beams and joists to central room as above. Good 6-panel doors to ground floor, raised and fielded panels.
Reason for designation
Large early C19 farmhouse of regional character, well preserved inside and out. Unusual plan.
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