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
16591
Building Number
Grade
II*
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
20/03/1996
Date of Amendment
18/10/1996
Name of Property
Tre-berfedd including kitchen wing forward on right
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Ceredigion
Community
Llanfihangel Ystrad
Town
Lampeter
Locality
Dihewid
Easting
250316
Northing
254622
Street Side
Location
Farm at end of short track off E side of Cribyn-Dihewyd by-road. Situated approximately 0.75km SE of Dihewyd.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Substantial farmhouse built in 1802 for D. Davies, possibly a rebuild on earlier foundations. Owned in 1845 by David Evans and Thomas Davies (the latter was the occupier and presumably the succesor of D. Davies).
Exterior
Colourwashed rubble construction with cob visible above the upper front windows. Corrugated-iron roof covering thatch, wide boarded eaves. Low rubble gable chimney stacks, thicker to right. Three-bay front offset to left. Small upper single-light 4-pane casement windows with timber lintels. Ground floor with later C19 4-pane horned sash windows, cambered stone voussoired heads. Stone sills. Central planked door incorporating small light, cambered head as above. Plaque above door: "D. DAVIES 1802". Single-storey 2-bay mid/late C19 kitchen wing projecting to right, similar construction to main house and entered from the front courtyard. Two-light 4-pane casement to left, boarded central door, flat stone voussoired heads. Slate roof, brick/rubble gable stack.
Right end of house with stepped plinth and ground floor 4-pane casement. Kitchen wing stepped forward: two-light 4-pane casement with cambered stone voussoired head and stone sill. Lower part of NE corner bullnosed to acknowledge the access road. Left end with corrugated sheets overlapping the gable. Upper four-pane horned sash with lintel. Mid/late C19 rubble rear outshut not fully extending to N end of house. Two-light 4-pane casement in middle with cambered stone voussoired head and stone sill. Inserted window to right. N return elevation with casement as rear and loft window above with boarded shutter.
Interior
Not inspected, but the thatch survives (ceiled in), the roof timbers visible. The N large fireplace has apparently been altered.
Reason for designation
Listed Grade II* as an unusually complete late Georgian vernacular farmhouse, an extremely rare survival of this regional building type with its character retained. Well-preserved mid/late C19 additions, the whole a highly attractive group.
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