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
17801
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
26/11/1996
Date of Amendment
26/11/1996
Name of Property
Felin Coed
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Ceredigion
Community
Nantcwnlle
Town
Lampeter
Locality
Llundain Fach
Easting
255998
Northing
256601
Street Side
Location
Situated off left side of lane that connects the B 4342 Talsarn- Llangeitho road with Abermeurig across the Aeron. House is opposite Pentre farm and screened from the road by modern house.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Later C18 cob or clom-walled house, the miller's house of Felin Coed corn-mill. Associated with the bard "Cern Goch", John Jenkins, in later C19. Marked on 1843 Nantcwnlle Tithe Map as owned by Theophilus Jones, occupied by Thomas Jones.
Exterior
Whitewashed earth walls with zinc-covered thatched roof, and brick end stacks. S end was half-hipped. Single storey and loft, double-fronted the facade stepping markedly downhill. The front wall has rubble stone base to left, stepped up to door head, and door has yellow brick pier on right side. Timber lintels. Six-pane sash to left, ledged door centre, and low-set 12-pane sash to right. Loft light in S end wall, single rear window.
Interior
Roof structure, much obscured, apparently of three pairs of curved principals, the foot of the centre one on the rear wall is scarfed. Interior plan of upper kitchen, centre hall with tongue-and-groove panelling and ladder access to loft, and lower parlour, with earth floor. In loft underthatch is visible at upper end and there are no collars to trusses. Centre truss is tied at floor level.
Reason for designation
Listed as one of the best examples in the region of a clom cottage with good scarfed cruck trusses to the roof.
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