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
17433
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
18/10/1996
Date of Amendment
18/10/1996
Name of Property
Penlan-hafodwen including attached byre (also known as Penlan-capel)
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Ceredigion
Community
Llanfihangel Ystrad
Town
Lampeter
Locality
Capel Sain Silin
Easting
251610
Northing
250973
Street Side
Location
Reached at end of short lane off N side of by-road, 0.5km SW of Cribyn.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Later C18 farmhouse with byre attached. Typical C19 alteration included the central house entry replacing the chimney entry off the cross-passage. Shown on 1843 Tithe map, when the owner and occupier was David Jones.
Exterior
Rubble construction with cob to upper front walls. Rough plinth. Byre is whitewashed, but house is coloured, once a typical upland practice. Corrugated-iron roofs, covering thatch. Rubble gable chimney-stacks, thicker to left. Three-bay house front, offset to right. Two upper C20 steel windows rising to close eaves. Small ground floor 4-pane horned sashes with timber lintels. C20 central door within added simple porch. Small blocked window to left at mid-storey level, which served former stair. Rubble right end with open garage attached. Rear with later rubble outshut having two-light 4-pane casement to E. NE (rear) corner of house is bullnosed (the front has quoin-stones).
Byre at left (downslope) end. Upper walls and gable of cob construction. Boarded door to right (former cross-passage entry). Three small windows to left, that towards the end is inserted. Timber lintels. Bullnosed corner. Divided boarded door at gable end, timber lintel. Loop to rear. Cross-passage has no rear exit door.
Interior
Kitchen (left room) with massive rough beam, sawn joists. Original roof structure complete, consisting of three pairs of scarfed crucks with rough pegged collars and paired purlins. Thatch and scantling underthatch fully visible. Cross-passage door blocked: it entered the kitchen underneath the stair, the latter a single-flight replacement. Byre with three pairs of scarfed crucks, pegged collars and paired purlins. Thatch and scantlings complete. Part of a planked partition survives, dividing off the cross-passage (possibly original).
Reason for designation
Listed, notwithstanding window alterations, for its well-preserved character as an upland farmhouse with byre. Roof structures of special interest.
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